budėti

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *budḗˀtei (to be awake). Cognate with Old Prussian budẽ ((they) watch over).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /bʊˈdʲæːtʲɪ/

Verb

budė́ti (third-person present tense bùdi, third-person past tense budė́jo)

  1. to be awake
  2. to keep watch

Declension

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “budėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 104