съ-

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Old Church Slavonic

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Etymology

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From Proto-Slavic *sъ(n)-, from *sъ(n), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱom. The /n/ persists in сънѧти (sŭnęti), from ѧти (ęti, to take). Compare the analogous loss of -n- in въ- (vŭ-).

Not to be confused with Proto-Slavic *sъ- (good), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁su-.

Prefix

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съ- (sŭ-)

  1. Prepended to verbs, usually forming a perfective from an imperfective verb.
    съ- (sŭ-) + ‎поустити (pustiti) → ‎съпоустити (sŭpustiti)
    съ- (sŭ-) + ‎знати (znati) → ‎съзнати (sŭznati)
    съ- (sŭ-) + ‎ломити (lomiti) → ‎съломити (sŭlomiti)
    съ- (sŭ-) + ‎коупити (kupiti) → ‎съкоупити (sŭkupiti)
  2. (used with verbs) (describing an action moving from a single position or many positions into another single position)
    съ- (sŭ-) + ‎лити impf (liti, to pour) → ‎сълити pf (sŭliti, to pour into one place)
  3. (used with verbs) down (describing a downward action)
    съ- (sŭ-) + ‎ходити (xoditi, to go) → ‎съходити (sŭxoditi, to go down)
  4. (used with verbs) off, from off (describing an action of removing oneself to another location)

Derived terms

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