žasti

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Lithuanian

Etymology

Related to žadė́ti (to promise);[1] the underlying root is of uncertain origin. According to Blažek, it may be from Proto-Indo-European *ǵeh₂dʰ- (to rejoice), and be cognate with Ancient Greek γηθέω (gēthéō, to rejoice, triumph), Tocharian B kātk- (id), Latin gaudeō (id) (note that the Proto-Indo-European root is usually reconstructed with a *g, rather than a palatal ).[2][3] However, this derivation fails to explain the underlying short vowel, and is, on balance, semantically rather weak. Smoczyński proposes Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰodʰ- as a plausible origin.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

žàsti (third-person present tense žañda, third-person past tense žãdo)[4]

  1. (archaic) to say

Conjugation

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References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “žàsti”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 775
  2. ^ Blažek, Václav (2010) “Lithuanian žõdis "word"”, in Baltistica, volume XLV, number 2, Vilnius University, archived from the original on 2021-01-29, page 306
  3. ^ žasti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  4. ^ žasti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024