mazgoti

From Proto-Indo-European *mesg- (“to sink”). Cognates include Latvian mazgāt, Sanskrit मज्जति (majjati, “to sink”) and Latin mergō (“to immerse”).^[1][2]

The term has also been connected with similar words in Uralic languages, such as Võro mõskma and Hungarian mos (from Proto-Uralic *mośke- (“to wash”)), however, it is more probable that the Proto-Uralic term was derived from Proto-Indo-European.

• IPA^(key):
• Hyphenation: ma‧zgo‧ti

mazgóti (third-person present tense mazgója, third-person past tense mazgójo)

1. (transitive) to wash, to bathe

   Synonyms: prausti, plauti, skalbti

   Rankà rañką mazgója. (idiomatic) ― you scratch my back and I'll scratch yours (literally, “The hand washes the hand.”)

• prausti, plauti, skalbti

• Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.

• “mazgoti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
• “mazgoti”, in Bendrinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of common Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, n.d.
• “mazgoti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025