siekti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *seyk- (“to reach (for)”), and cognate with Ancient Greek ῑ̔́κω (hī́kō, “to come, reach”). The acute form in the common variant of the Lithuanian (which also has an expected circumflex form siẽkti), is difficult to explain, however.^[1]

Pronunciation

síekti IPA^(key): [ˈsʲîəkʲt̪ɪ]
siẽkti IPA^(key): [ˈsʲiəkʲt̪ɪ]

Verb

si̇́ekti (third-person present tense si̇́ekia, third-person past tense si̇́ekė) or
siẽkti (third-person present tense siẽkia, third-person past tense siẽkė)

(transitive, intransitive) to reach (for), try to touch
siekti ranka pirmyn ― to reach forward with one's hand

siekti liežuviu nosį ― to reach for the nose with one's tongue
(transitive) to approach, touch
kalno viršus siekė debesis ― the top of the mountain touched the clouds
(intransitive) to go, travel
namo siekiu ― I'm heading home
(transitive, intransitive) to strive for, seek; to try to gain, win
siekti laimėti rinkimus ― to strive to win an election
(transitive, intransitive) to reach a certain age, size, number; to equal
imunizacijos lygis siekia 79 proc. ― the immunization rate is 79%

kalno aukštis siekia 5000 m ― the height of the mountain is 5000 m

Conjugation

Conjugation of *siekti*
		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person	1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person
		singular vienaskaita			plural daugiskaita
		aš	tu	jis/ji	mes	jūs	jie/jos
indicative tiesioginė nuosaka	present esamasis laikas	si̇́ekiu	si̇́eki	si̇́ekia	si̇́ekiame, si̇́ekiam	si̇́ekiate, si̇́ekiat	si̇́ekia
	past būtasis kartinis laikas	si̇́ekiau	si̇́ekei	si̇́ekė	si̇́ekėme, si̇́ekėm	si̇́ekėte, si̇́ekėt	si̇́ekė
	past frequentative būtasis dažninis laikas	si̇́ekdavau	si̇́ekdavai	si̇́ekdavo	si̇́ekdavome, si̇́ekdavom	si̇́ekdavote, si̇́ekdavot	si̇́ekdavo
	future būsimasis laikas	si̇́eksiu	si̇́eksi	si̇́eks	si̇́eksime, si̇́eksim	si̇́eksite, si̇́eksit	si̇́eks
subjunctive tariamoji nuosaka		si̇́ekčiau	si̇́ektum	si̇́ektų	si̇́ektumėme, si̇́ektumėm, si̇́ektume	si̇́ektumėte, si̇́ektumėt	si̇́ektų
imperative liepiamoji nuosaka		—	si̇́ek, si̇́eki	tesi̇́ekia	si̇́ekime, si̇́ekim	si̇́ekite, si̇́ekit	tesi̇́ekia

Participles of siekti

adjectival (dalyviai)
	active	passive
present	si̇́ekiąs, si̇́ekiantis	si̇́ekiamas
past	si̇́ekęs	si̇́ektas
past frequentative	si̇́ekdavęs	—
future	si̇́eksiąs, si̇́eksiantis	si̇́eksimas
participle of necessity	—	si̇́ektinas

adverbial
special pusdalyvis		si̇́ekdamas
half-participle padalyviai	present	si̇́ekiant
	past	si̇́ekus
	past frequentative	si̇́ekdavus
	future	si̇́eksiant
manner of action būdinys		si̇́ekte, si̇́ektinai

Derived terms

siekė́jas
sieki̇̀mas
sieki̇̀masis

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “siekti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 397