pīt

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pit"

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pínˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)penh₁-.

Cognate with Lithuanian pi̇̀nti, Polish piąć się (to climb) and Ancient Greek πένομαι (pénomai, to toil) (which apparently got generalized from some domestic work; compare Ancient Greek πήνη (pḗnē, thread on the bobbin) > Latin pānus), Proto-Germanic *spinnaną (to spin), possibly Old East Slavic понѧва (ponęva) / Russian поня́ва (ponjáva, blanket), Old Church Slavonic поукъ (pukŭ) > Russian пук (puk, bunch, tuft).

Verb

pīt (transitive, 1st conjugation, present pinu, pin, pin, past pinu)

  1. to braid
  2. to plait
  3. to weave
  4. to wattle
  5. to wreathe

Conjugation

Conjugation of pīt
indicative (īstenības izteiksme) imperative
(pavēles izteiksme)
present
(tagadne)
past
(pagātne)
future
(nākotne)
1st person sg es pinu pinu pīšu
2nd person sg tu pin pini pīsi pin
3rd person sg viņš, viņa pin pina pīs lai pin
1st person pl mēs pinam pinām pīsim pīsim
2nd person pl jūs pinat pināt pīsiet,
pīsit
piniet
3rd person pl viņi, viņas pin pina pīs lai pin
renarrative (atstāstījuma izteiksme) participles (divdabji)
present pinot present active 1 (adj.) pinošs
past esot pinis present active 2 (adv.) pīdams
future pīšot present active 3 (adv.) pinot
imperative lai pinot present active 4 (obj.) pinam
conditional (vēlējuma izteiksme) past active pinis
present pītu present passive pinams
past būtu pinis past passive pīts
debitive (vajadzības izteiksme) nominal forms
indicative (būt) jāpin infinitive (nenoteiksme) pīt
conjunctive 1 esot jāpin negative infinitive nepīt
conjunctive 2 jāpinot verbal noun pīšana

References

  • Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 399