икать

Russian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *jьkati, morphologically from onomatopoeic и (i) + -кать (-katʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ɪˈkatʲ]

Verb

ика́ть (ikátʹ) impf (perfective икну́ть)

  1. to hiccup
  2. (linguistics) to pronounce unstressed е (je) as и (i), the Standard Russian pronunciation, rather than as е (je).

Usage note

An example is the Standard Russian pronunciation of земля́ (zemljá) as /zʲimˈlʲa/, which could be respelled as *зимля́ (*zimljá).

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • и́канье (íkanʹje)

Antonyms

  • (pronouncing unstressed e as i): екать (jekatʹ)

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), икать”, in Etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), translated from German and supplemented by Trubačev O. N., Moscow: Progress
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