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Etymology edit

Inherited from Old East Slavic отъкрꙑти (otŭkryti, to uncover, unfold; to reveal, disclose), from Proto-Slavic *otъkryti, from *otъ- +‎ *kryti (to cover, hide). By surface analysis, от- (ot-) +‎ крыть (krytʹ).

The sense "to discover" is a calque of French découvrir or German entdecken.

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  • IPA(key): [ɐtˈkrɨtʲ]
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  • Rhymes: -ɨtʲ

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откры́ть (otkrýtʹpf (imperfective открыва́ть, verbal noun откры́тие)

  1. to open
  2. to turn on
  3. to discover
  4. to disclose
  5. to reveal
  6. to unveil
  7. to inaugurate

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “открыть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902) “отъкрꙑти”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volumes 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 791