geisti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *géistei, *gístei, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeidʰ-ie-, from *gʰeydʰ- (to yearn for).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈɡʲɛjsʲtʲɪ]

Verb

geĩsti (third-person present tense geĩdžia, third-person past tense geĩdė)

  1. (with genitive) to desire, to crave, to covet, to lust after
    geidžiu šokolado.
    I desire chocolate.
    Manęs geidžia.
    He's got the hots for me.

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “gida-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
  2. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “426-427”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 426-427
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