Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/péktei

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This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti (to be cooking). The Baltic forms have experienced metathesis.

Verb

*péktei[1][2]

  1. to bake

Descendants

  • East Baltic:
    • Latgalian: cept
    • Latvian: cept
    • Lithuanian: kèpti
  • Proto-Slavic: *peťì (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*pektì”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 393:*pek-
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “kepti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 237:*pek-