сулить

• Vasmer connects this verb and the related noun посу́л (posúl) with Old Church Slavonic сулѣи (sulěi, “superior”), which is usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *ḱewh₁- (“to swell, be strong”).

• Alternatively akin to слать (slatʹ). Compare typologically Latin prōmittō, prōmissum (whence English promise) (from Latin mittō, whence ми́ссия (míssija), see also компроми́сс (kompromíss)); Ancient Greek ἐπαγγέλλω (epangéllō), ἐπαγγελία (epangelía) (< ἀγγέλλω (angéllō) < ἄγγελος (ángelos), whence а́нгел (ángel)).

• IPA^(key): [sʊˈlʲitʲ]

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сули́ть • (sulítʹ) impf (perfective посули́ть)

1. (literary or dated) to promise

   Synonym: обеща́ть (obeščátʹ)

2. (imperfective only) to foreshadow, to portend, to bode

   Synonyms: предвеща́ть (predveščátʹ), обеща́ть (obeščátʹ)

3. (imperfective only) to predict, to prophesy

   Synonyms: предска́зывать (predskázyvatʹ), проро́чить (proróčitʹ)

• по́сул m (pósul)

• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973), “сулить”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Šanskij, N. M. (2004), “сулить”, in Školʹnyj etimologičeskij slovarʹ russkovo jazyka [School Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Drofa
• Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989), “сулить”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 413
  • See: Tsyhanenko, H. P. (1989), “слать”, in Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Kyiv: Radjanska shkola, →ISBN, page 383

• Dal, Vladimir (1880–1882), “сулить”, in Толковый Словарь живаго великорускаго языка [Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language] (in Russian), 2nd edition, Publication of the bookseller-typographer Wolf, M. O.