стремить

Russian

Etymology

Cognate with Old East Slavic стрьмление (strĭmlenie), Slovene strmẹ́ti (to rise) (tonal orthography), Czech strmět (to rise), Slovak strmieť (to rise), Polish trzmić (to stick out). Related to Proto-Slavic *strьmъ (steep). Per Vasmer, possibly derived from the vowel assimilation found in Proto-Slavic *strьmь, *strьmьnъ (compare стрём (strjom, fear), стрёмный (strjómnyj, scary)), from Proto-Slavic *strъm-.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [strʲɪˈmʲitʲ]

Verb

стреми́ть (stremítʹ) impf

  1. (poetic or literary) to direct (something towards something), to fix (something onto something)
    стреми́ть взор (к)stremítʹ vzor (k)to direct one's gaze (towards)

Conjugation

Derived terms

imperfective

perfective

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