grieti
Lithuanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Probably from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrey- (“to smear, paint, streak”) (which Derksen reconstructs as *ģʰrey(H)-), and cognate with Ancient Greek χρῑ́ω (khrī́ō, “to smear, anoint”). However, the details of the word's phonetic development are unclear, due to the existence of related forms with kr- instead of gr- (such as krýtis alongside grýtis (“fishing sack”)), in addition to the Latvian cognate, krìet (“to skim”), exhibiting the same k-g variants as well as forms starting with k- being impossible to derive directly from *gʰrey-.[1] The k-forms seem to derive from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to sift, separate”) instead, which is a well-attested root, muddying etymological waters further;[2] it is possible that the roots of the k- and g-forms were confused and conflated early on in the development of Proto-Baltic, leading to semantic contamination. See also grýnas (“pure, clear”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
griẽti (third-person present tense griẽja, third-person past tense griẽjo)
- (dated) to grab; to skim
- (dialectal, dated) to fish (with a net)
- (dated) to chase away
- (dated) to spin
Conjugation[edit]
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Usage notes[edit]
- Rare in modern Lithuanian.
Related terms[edit]
- greĩtas (“quick”)
References[edit]
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “grieti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 187-8
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “krieti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 258-9