ґиґнути

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Ukrainian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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Voiced from earlier ки́кнути (kýknuty), from кик (kyk, death (vulgar)) +‎ -нути (-nuty), from Proto-Slavic *kykъ (crook, a certain crooked thing; death (figuratively, taboo)), from Proto-Indo-European *kew- (to bend, to crook), extended to *kew-k.

For the semantic development of "crook → death", compare ги́нути (hýnuty) and гну́ти (hnúty).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ґи́ґнути (gýgnutypf

  1. (vulgar) to die
  2. (obsolete) to throw on the ground

Conjugation

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