skaityti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *(s)keit-, *(s)kait-, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷoyt-, Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷeyt- (to notice). Cognate with Latvian skaitīt, Russian читать (čitatʹ, read), Sanskrit चेतति (cétati, to perceive, take notice of).[1]

Verb

skaitýti (third-person present tense skaĩto, third-person past tense skaĩtė)

  1. to read

Conjugation

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 401
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