sviets

Samogitian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śwaitas, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt-. Compare Belarusian свет (svjet), obsolete Lithuanian svietas, Polish świat, Russian свет (svet).

Noun

sviets m

  1. world

References

  • “Žemaičių Žodynas”, in Žemaičių žemė‎[1], number 86 (overall work in Lithuanian), April 2012, page 24: “Sviets — pasaulis”
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