reikšti

Related to ryškùs (“clear, bright, distinct”), rýkšti (“to make clearer and brighter”), as well as Old Church Slavonic рѣснота (rěsnota, “reality, truth”). Outside of Balto-Slavic, Ostrowski derives the terms from a de-prefixation of išrykšti (“to tear; to express”), itself from an earlier form *rī(k)ž, from Proto-Indo-European *wreh₁ǵ- (“to break asunder”), with semantic shift "to break" > "to make appear" > "to make clear" > "to convey"; for a semantic parallel, compare the usage of English break in the "disclose, make known" sense (as in I hate to break it to you, but...). See Proto-Slavic *rězati (“to cut”) and Ancient Greek ῥήγνῡμῐ (rhḗgnūmi, “to tear, rend”) for more potential cognates.

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réikšti (third-person present tense réiškia, third-person past tense réiškė)

1. to mean, signify, convey indicate, express

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