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to have

Source:*jьmětiProto-Slaviccertain

Ukrainian, Polish and Czech lost the initial *jь-; Russian and BCS kept it as и-/i-.

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English

to have

Polish

mieć

mjɛtɕ

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Latin under Cyrillic

Russian
име́тьimetʹ
ɪˈmʲetʲinherited
Formal: for 'I have' Russian says у меня́ есть, literally 'by me is'.
Ukrainian
ма́тиmaty
ˈmatɪinherited
Also the word for 'mother'; the two are unrelated.
Polish
mieć
mjɛtɕinherited
Czech
mít
miːtinherited
Bosnian-Croatian-Serbian
imatiимати
ˈimatiinherited
The infinitive follows the -ati type (imam 'I have').
English
to have