цокати

Ukrainian

Etymology

From цок (cok) +‎ -ати (-aty). Onomatopoeic.[1] Compare Russian цо́кать (cókatʹ), Belarusian цо́каць (cókacʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈt͡sɔkɐte]

Verb

цо́кати • (cókatyimpf (intransitive)

  1. to click, to clink, to clack, to clank
    Perfectives: поцо́кати pf (pocókaty), (semelfactive) цо́кнути pf (cóknuty)
    цо́кати зуба́миcókaty zubámyto click one's teeth
  2. to clop (to make the sound of a horse's shod hoof striking the ground)
    Perfective: (semelfactive) цо́кнути pf (cóknuty)
  3. to tick (to make a clicking noise similar to the movement of the hands of an analog clock)
    Perfective: (semelfactive) цо́кнути pf (cóknuty)
    годи́нник цо́кає.hodýnnyk cókaje.The clock is ticking.
  4. (linguistics) to pronounce the sound [t͡ɕ] as [t͡s]; to pronounce the letter ч (č) the same way as ц (c)

Conjugation

Derived terms

  • цо́кання n (cókannja)
  • цо́катися impf (cókatysja), цо́кнутися pf (cóknutysja)

References

  1. ^ Melnychuk, O. S., editor (2012), “цок”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 6 (У – Я), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN, page 263

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