відказати

від- (vid-) +‎ каза́ти (kazáty). Cognate with Belarusian адказа́ць (adkazácʹ). Sense of "to refuse" was an influence of Russian отказа́ть (otkazátʹ, “to deny, to refuse, to decline”), otherwise a false friend.

• IPA^(key): [ʋʲidkɐˈzate]

відказа́ти • (vidkazáty) pf (imperfective відка́зувати)

1. to answer, to respond, to reply
2. (colloquial) to bequeath
3. (dated or dialectal) to refuse
4. (dialectal) to scold, to berate

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• відка́з (vidkáz)

• Hrinchenko, Borys, editor (1907–1909), “відказа́ти”, in Словарь украинского языка [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Russian), Kyiv: Kievskaya starina
• Bilodid, I. K., editor (1970–1980), “відказати”, in Словник української мови: в 11 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 11 vols] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka
• Rusanivskyi, V. M., editor (2012), “відказа́ти”, in Словник української мови: у 20 т. [Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language: in 20 vols] (in Ukrainian), volume 2 (в – відсрібли́тися), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka, →ISBN