акать

Russian

Etymology

а (a) + -кать (-katʹ)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈakətʲ]
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Verb

а́кать (ákatʹ) impf (perfective а́кнуть)

  1. (linguistics) to pronounce an unstressed о like an а (as seen in Central and Southern Russia, considered standard)
    Москвичи́ а́кают.Moskvičí ákajut.Muscovites pronounce unstressed o's like a's.
    • (Can we date this quote?), Ива́н Арамилев (Ivan Aramilev), В лесах Урала [In the woods of the Urals]:
      Учи́тель отме́тил, что произноше́ние на́ше ужа́сно, заста́вил а́кать по-моско́вски и петербу́ргски: каро́ва, пашёл, маладо́й, вада́.
      Učítelʹ otmétil, što proiznošénije náše užásno, zastávil ákatʹ po-moskóvski i peterbúrgski: karóva, pašól, maladój, vadá.
      The teacher noted that our pronunciation was horrible and he made us say words in the Moscow and St. Petersburg way: karóva, pašól, maladój, vadá. [i.e., words with an unstressed о (o): коро́ва (koróva), пошёл (pošól), молодо́й (molodój), вода́ (vodá)]

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