veikti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (overcome), with semantic shift "overcome, conquer" > "achieve, work". Cognate with Latvian vèikt.

Verb

veĩkti (third-person present tense veīkia, third-person past tense veĩkė)

  1. to act, work, function, operate, affect
    Antonym: neveikti

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References

  • veikti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “veĩkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 494
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