badyti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bádīˀtei (“to pierce, stab”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂- (“to dig; to pierce”). Equivalent to the o-grade iterative of bèsti. Cognate with Latvian badît (“to butt, gore, poke”), Proto-Slavic *bodati (“to stab, sting”).

Verb

badýti (third-person present tense bãdo, third-person past tense bãdė)

1. to butt, prick, poke

References

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “badyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 75-76