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    подождать — etymology

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    I would like to understand better the etymology of подождать, which I think has the imperfective form подождить. I see these parts in it:

    по- "along with"
    -до- "until"
    -жд- — Could this be related to идти? To which simple verb are these prefixes (по, до) attached?
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    ждать (wait)
    There is no imperfective form of подождать

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    It’s hardly etymology. It’s morphology you fight with.

    “Подождить” is a rare word meaning “to rain for some time.”

    “Подождать” is the perfective form of “ждать,” which we can divide into the prefix “подо-” (being just a variant of “под-” modifying the sense of the stem into “littleness” of action) and the stem “ждать” (“wait”). So, it means “to wait a little time.”

    The imperfective would be “поджидать.”
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