Ukrainian

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Etymology

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From піт (pit) +‎ -і́ти (-íty). Compare Russian поте́ть (potétʹ), Belarusian паце́ць (pacjécʹ), Polish pocić się.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [poˈtʲite]
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Verb

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поті́ти (potítyimpf

  1. to sweat, to perspire (to emit sweat)
  2. (figuratively, colloquial) to sweat (to work hard)
  3. (third person only) to steam up, to fog up, to mist up (to become coated with condensation)

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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Prefixed verbs
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References

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  • Shyrokov, V. A., editor (2023), “потіти”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volumes 14 (покі́с – префере́нція), Kyiv: Ukrainian Lingua-Information Fund
  • потіти”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)

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