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Samogitian
Etymology 1
From Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to think, to perceive”). Cognate with Latin sentiō (“to feel”), Old High German sinnan (“to desire”). See also Lithuanian sių̃sti.
Verb
sintietė
- to think, to consider
Etymology 2
From sintis (“shortness of breath”) + -ietė, possibly related to sens (“old”).
Verb
sintietė
- to breathe heavily
Further reading
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “sintėti I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 398
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “sintėti II”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 398
- Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “sintìs”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 1095