sintietė

Samogitian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to think, to perceive”). Cognate with Latin sentiō (“to feel”), Old High German sinnan (“to desire”). See also Lithuanian sių̃sti.

Verb

sintietė

  1. to think, to consider

Etymology 2

From sintis (“shortness of breath”) +‎ -ietė, possibly related to sens (“old”).

Verb

sintietė

  1. to breathe heavily

Further reading

  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “sintėti I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 398
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “sintėti II”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 398
  • Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “sinti̇̀s”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 1095
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