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обещать

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Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic обѣщати (oběštati), from Proto-Slavic *oběťati. Displaced native Russian обеча́ть (obečátʹ).

  • IPA(key): [ɐbʲɪˈɕːætʲ]

обеща́ть (obeščátʹimpf (perfective пообеща́ть)

  1. to promise, to pledge
    Synonym: сули́ть impf (sulítʹ)
  2. to promise, to give grounds for expectation (perfective is not used)
    Synonym: сули́ть impf (sulítʹ)

Compounds:

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “обещать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress