стонать

Russian

Etymology

From Old Church Slavonic стонати (stonati), from Proto-Slavic *stenàti. Compare Bulgarian стон (ston), Czech stonati. Non-Slavic cognates include Ancient Greek στόνος (stónos, “a sighing or groaning”), Latin tonō (“to thunder, to resound”) and Sanskrit स्तनति (stanati, “to roar, to cry”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [stɐˈnatʲ]
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Verb

стона́ть • (stonátʹ) impf (perfective застона́ть or простона́ть)

  1. to groan, moan
  2. to suffer, languish

Conjugation

or (colloquial or dated)

Derived terms

References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “стонать”, 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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