Mind & speech

to forget

Source:*zabytiProto-Slavic · “za- + *byti 'be'”certain

Perfectives. Polish and Czech 'un-remember' with the root of Russian по́мнить.

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English

to forget

Polish

zapomnieć

zaˈpɔmɲɛtɕ

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
забы́тьzabytʹ
zɐˈbɨtʲinherited
Ukrainian
забу́тиzabuty
zaˈbutɪinherited
Polish
zapomnieć
zaˈpɔmɲɛtɕdifferent word · Proto-Slavic *za- + *pomьněti 'to remember'
Czech
zapomenout
ˈzapomɛnou̯tdifferent word · Proto-Slavic *za- + *pomьněti 'to remember'
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
zaboravitiзаборавити
zaˈboravitidifferent word · BCS, of uncertain origin
English
to forget

Russian запо́мнить “to memorize, commit to memory”Polish zapomnieć “to forget”Czech zapomenout “to forget”
Russian 'forget' is забы́ть; Polish 'memorize' is zapamiętać, Czech zapamatovat si.