ґиґнути

• ки́кнути (kýknuty)
• ґе́ґнути (gégnuty)

Voiced from earlier ки́кнути (kýknuty), from кик (kyk, “death (vulgar)”) +‎ -нути (-nuty), from Proto-Slavic *kykъ (“crook, a certain crooked thing; death (figuratively, taboo)”), from Proto-Indo-European *kew- (“to bend, to crook”), extended to *kew-k.

For the semantic development of "crook → death", compare ги́нути (hýnuty) and гну́ти (hnúty).

• IPA^(key): [ˈɡɪɡnʊte]

ґи́ґнути • (gýgnuty) pf

1. (vulgar) to die
2. (obsolete) to throw on the ground

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• Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1985), “кик”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (Д – Копці), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, page 431
• Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1907–1909), “ґи́ґнути”, in Словарь украинского языка [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), Kyiv: Kievskaya starina
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• “ґиґнути”, in Горох – Словозміна [Horokh – Inflection] (in Ukrainian)
• “ґиґнути”, in Словник.ua [Slovnyk.ua] (in Ukrainian)