This word is traditionally derived from Proto-Baltic *per-k-, *pr̥k-, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“taking over, past something”) (whence Latvian prepositions par, pār, q.v.), as a verb “to take over, past (somewhere)” > “to take (somewhere) to sell” > “to sell”, with an extra k. With this meaning, cf. Ancient Greek περνάναι (pernánai), πιπράσκειν (pipráskein, “to sell, to export”), and Old Irish renim (“I sell”) (< *pr̥-nā-). In the Baltic languages, the meaning “to sell” became “to buy,” given the nature of buying and selling as two aspects of the same two-sided event. From the same stem also prece (“product, ware, merchandise”), q.v. A more recent suggestion is that pirkt may derive from another Proto-Indo-European stem *per- (“to hit”) (whence pērkons (“thunder”), q.v.), with as original meaning “to rob, to plunder;” in several Indo-European languages, verbs of buying originate from verbs of taking (cf. Latin emere (“to buy”), earlier “to take”). Cognates include Lithuanian pir̃kti.
pirkt (transitive, 1st conjugation, present pērku, pērc, pērk, past pirku)
INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) | ||||
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Present (tagadne) |
Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) | |||
1st pers. sg. | es | pērku | pirku | pirkšu | — |
2nd pers. sg. | tu | pērc | pirki | pirksi | pērc |
3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | pērk | pirka | pirks | lai pērk |
1st pers. pl. | mēs | pērkam | pirkām | pirksim | pirksim |
2nd pers. pl. | jūs | pērkat | pirkāt | pirksiet, pirksit |
pērciet |
3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | pērk | pirka | pirks | lai pērk |
RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
Present | pērkot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | pērkošs | ||
Past | esot pircis | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | pirkdams | ||
Future | pirkšot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | pērkot | ||
Imperative | lai pērkot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | pērkam | ||
CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | pircis | |||
Present | pirktu | Present Passive | pērkams | ||
Past | būtu pircis | Past Passive | pirkts | ||
DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
Indicative | (būt) jāpērk | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | pirkt | ||
Conjunctive 1 | esot jāpērk | Negative Infinitive | nepirkt | ||
Conjunctive 2 | jāpērkot | Verbal noun | pirkšana |