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Hm no. It is true that modern imperfective suffixes had frequentative (or iterative) meaning but this claim about "one-time" verbs is wrong I'm afraid. Semelfactivity (однократность) can be conveyed...

Svetlana Grenier was right. Paul B. Gallagher didn't get the idea. oothappam was more or less right.

Russian perfective and imperfective verbs were derived from old Slavic "one-time" and "multiple...