-мкнуть

Cognate with Old East Slavic промъкнѫти сѧ (promŭknǫti sę, “to dash past, to spread”), Old Church Slavonic мъкнѫти сѧ (mŭknǫti sę, “to go through”), Ukrainian замкнути (zamknuty), Belarusian мкнуць (mknucʹ), Bulgarian мъкна (mǎkna, “to drag, to pull out”), Serbo-Croatian ма̀кнути (“to move”) (1sg. ма̏кне̄м), Slovene makníti (“to move”) (1sg. máknem), Czech mknouti (“to move”), Slovak mknúť, Polish mknąć (“to move, to push, to encourage”), whence Russian мчать (mčatʹ). More distantly related to Lithuanian mùkti (“to be released, to escape”) (1g. munkù, 1sg. past mukaũ), Latvian mukt (“to slip, to run away, to slip away”). Also related (with different vocalism) to Lithuanian maũkti (“to drag, to pull off”) (1sg. maukiù, 1sg. past maukiaũ), Sanskrit मुञ्चति (muñcáti, “to liberate, let out”) (also मुचति (mucáti); verbal noun मुक्त (muktá, “free”), also मुक्ति f (múkti, “liberation”)), Avestan 𐬟𐬭𐬀𐬨𐬎𐬑𐬙𐬌‎ f (framuxti, “unleashing, deliverance”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈmknutʲ]

-мкну́ть • (-mknútʹ) pf (imperfective -мыка́ть)

1. Combining form used to form prefixed perfective verbs with the approximate meaning of "to close, to lock".