šventas
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Lithuanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Cognate with Latvian svèts (“holy”), Old Prussian swints (“holy”), Proto-Slavic *svętъ (“holy”). From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śwentas (“holy”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen- (“holy”).
Adjective[edit]
šveñtas m (feminine šventà) stress pattern 4
Declension[edit]
Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of šventas
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of šventas
Derived terms[edit]
- šventasis (“saint”)
References[edit]
- “šventas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “šventas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 456