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Where does “кайфовать” come from?

кайфовать (Russian) comes from Russian -ова́ть, from Proto-Slavic -ovati — Creates verbs out of nouns and adjectives.

кайфовать (Russian): to bool; to chill out, to bliss out, to be high

Definitions

  1. to bool; to chill out, to bliss out, to be high

Ancestry of “кайфовать”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Russian-ова́ть—
2Proto-Slavic-ovatiCreates verbs out of nouns and adjectives
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