liesti

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *leyt- (whence also Latvian làitît (“to rub, whip, massage, caress”)), of uncertain further origin.

Buck implicitly derives the Baltic from Proto-Indo-European *h₂leyH- (“to smear”) (by comparing to Latin linō (“to daub, anoint”)), while Chantraine, Pokorny, and Smoczynski tentatively connect the Baltic root to Ancient Greek λίσσομαι (líssomai, “to pray, beseech”), with the original form and meaning of the Greek term supposedly being *λιτ-yο-μια (*lit-yo-mia) and "to lovingly caress", from a Proto-Indo-European *leyt- (“to touch”). Rix favors this derivation, explaining the semantic shift in the Greek as "to touch the knees" > "to beseech"; however, Beekes is skeptical of the semantics.

Pronunciation

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Verb

liẽsti (third-person present tense liẽčia, third-person past tense liẽtė)

  1. to touch
  2. to disturb

Declension

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Derived terms

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “liẽsti”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎ (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 351-2
  2. ^ “liesti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  3. ^ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) “λίσσομαι”, in Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 866
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