bausti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Related to busti (“to wake up”), baudyti (“incite, instigate”). From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeudʰ-.

Verb

baũsti (third-person present tense baũdžia, third-person past tense baũdė)

1. to punish

Conjugation

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Related terms

• bausmė (“punishment”)
• bauda (“penalty”)
• baudinys (“penalty kick”)
• baudžiava (“serfdom”)

Further reading

• “bausti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• V. Dadurkevičius & D. Ralys (n.d.) “bausti”, in M. Paura & M. Tverijonas, editors, Lietuvių–anglų kalbų žodynas [Lithuanian-English dictionary], ekalba.lt
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “baudyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 83