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Where does “раскусывать” come from?

раскусывать (Russian) comes from Russian раскуси́ть, from Russian рас-, from Russian раз-, from Old East Slavic роз-, from Proto-Slavic orz- — dis-.

раскусывать (Russian): to bite through; to guess, to get to the core, to...

Definitions

  1. to bite through; to guess, to get to the core, to...

Ancestry of “раскусывать”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Russianраскуси́ть—
2Russianрас-Alternative form of раз-
3Russianраз-asunder, apart; dis-, di-, un-; enlarged action
4Old East Slavicроз-—
5Proto-Slavicorz-dis-
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