брехат

Ukrainian

1. to bark

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *brexati, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰerk-, from *bʰer-. Cognate with Belarusian брахаць (braxacʹ), Russian брехать (brexatʹ), Slovak brechat'.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [breˈxat]
  • IPA^(key): [tam swɔˌji ˌxɔdet tɔ wʊˌɔn nɛ ˌbrɛʃe] - там свої ходет то вуон (собака) не бреше

Verb

бреха́т • (brexát) impf (perfective збреха́т)

Note

From Middle Polisian dialect. observed in village Kremne, Zhytomyr Oblast

Further reading

• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1976), “*brexati”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 3 (*bratrьcь – *cьrky), Moscow: Nauka, page 13
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “бреха́ть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress