gyti
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Lithuanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gīˀw- (“to live”) (with semantic shift "to live" > "to recover and heal"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeih₃w- (“id”).[1] Cognate with Latvian dzīvot, Proto-Slavic *živěti, *žiti, Sanskrit जीवति (jī́vati), Latin vīvō (“to live”).
Verb[edit]
gýti (third-person present tense gỹja, third-person past tense gìjo)
Derived terms[edit]
- gyvénti (“to live”)
References[edit]
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 179