gandėtis

Lithuanian

Etymology

Thought to be derived from an older verb negandė́ti (“to not have enough, not suffice”), with the initial ne dropped. For a semantic parallel (albeit with words of different etymology), Smoczynski compares the Polish collocation obawiać się niedostatku (“to fear paucity”). The root of the verb is connected to ganà (“enough”); see there for more.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

gandė́tis (third-person present tense gandė́jasi, third-person past tense gandė́josi)

  1. to fear, be afraid

Declension

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Derived terms

  • gandéntis (“to be afraid”)
  • gandiñti (“to frighten”) (causative)
  • pasigandė́ti (“to be frightened”)

References

  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “gandė́ti”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 156
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