geisti

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *géistei, *gístei, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeidʰ-ie-, from *gʰeydʰ- (to yearn for). Cognate with Latvian gaidit (to wait),Old Prussian gẽide (id), Proto-Slavic *žьdàti (to wait, expect).[1][2][3]

Pronunciation

Verb

geĩsti (third-person present tense geĩdžia, third-person past tense geĩdė)

  1. (with genitive) to desire, to crave, to covet, to lust after
    geidžiu šokolado.
    I desire chocolate.
    Manęs geidžia.
    He's got the hots for me.

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References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “geisti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 167
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “gida-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
  3. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “426-427”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 426-427