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писать

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Etymology 1

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Inherited from Old East Slavic писати (pisati, “to write; to paint”), from Proto-Slavic *pьsati. Related to Latin pingō (whence English paint and picture).

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  • IPA(key): [pʲɪˈsatʲ]
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Verb

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писа́ть • (pisátʹ) impf (perfective написа́ть, verbal noun (nomen actionis; nomen obiecti) писа́ние or (nomen actionis; nomen obiecti) письмо́ or (nomen agentis, occasional) писа́льщик or (nomen agentis) пи́сарь or (nomen agentis) писа́тель or (nomen agentis) писа́ка or (nomen resultatis) писани́на)

  1. to write
  2. (literary) to paint (a painting)
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Etymology 2

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Borrowed from German pissen, from Old French pissier, from Vulgar Latin *pissiāre, of echoic origin.

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пи́сать • (písatʹ) impf (perfective попи́сать)

  1. to urinate, to pee, to piss
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References

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  • Vasmer, Max (1972), “писать”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), volumes 3 (Муза – Сят), Moscow: Progress, page 266
  • Chernykh, P. Ja. (1999), “писать”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 35
  • Sreznevsky, Izmail I. (1902), “писати”, in Матеріалы для Словаря древне-русскаго языка по письменнымъ памятникамъ [Materials for the Dictionary of the Old East Slavic Language Based on Written Monuments]‎[1] (in Russian), volume 2 (Л – П), Saint Petersburg: Department of Russian Language and Literature of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, column 935