spausti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *spewd- (“to press, hurry”). Cognate with Ancient Greek σπεύδω (speúdō, “to press on, hasten”).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

spáusti (third-person present tense spáudžia, third-person past tense spáudė)

  1. to press
  2. to squeeze
  3. to click (a button, etc.)

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

  • spáudyti (“to press”)
  • spaudà (“print, press, pressure”, noun)
  • į̇́spūdis (“impression”)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “spausti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 419
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