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Etymology

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Inherited from Old East Slavic тискати (tiskati), from Proto-Slavic *tìskati (to press, squeeze).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ти́скать (tískatʹimpf (perfective ти́снуть)

  1. (colloquial) to squeeze, to press
  2. (colloquial) to snuggle, to hug (pets, little kids)
  3. (colloquial) to print, to publish

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References

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  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “тискать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “тискать”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 245
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1912) “тискать”, 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 3 (Р – Ꙗ и дополненія), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 960