оп'ять

Ukrainian

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Slavic *pęta (“heel”) (with о- (o-) prefix). Cognates include Czech opět, Old Polish opięć, Russian опя́ть (opjátʹ), Serbo-Croatian opet.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɔˈpjatʲ]

Adverb

оп'я́ть • (opʺjátʹ)

1. (colloquial, proscribed) again (occurring another time)

   Synonyms: знов (znov), зно́ву (znóvu), уп'я́ть (upʺjátʹ)

Further reading

• Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1907–1909), “оп'я́ть”, in Словарь украинского языка [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), Kyiv: Kievskaya starina
• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2003), “оп'я́ть”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volumes 4 (Н – П), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 206