довлеть

Russian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic довьлѣти (dovĭlěti), from Proto-Slavic *dovьlěti. The second sense appeared in the late 19th century and is not connected with the original; it arose by association with дави́ть (davítʹ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [dɐˈvlʲetʲ]

Verb

довле́ть • (dovlétʹ) impf

  1. (archaic, biblical) to satisfy, to be sufficient
  2. (nonstandard) to weigh upon someone, to burden, to hang over

Conjugation

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References

  • Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “довлеть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
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