šviesti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From *ḱweyt- (“to shine”),[1] possibly via Proto-Balto-Slavic *śweistei, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwéyt-ye-ti.

Pronunciation

Verb

šviẽsti (third-person present tense šviẽčia, third-person past tense šviẽtė)

  1. to shine, emit light

Conjugation

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References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “šviesti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 456
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