lēkt

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See also: lekt, -lekt, and Lekt

Latvian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?] (compare Proto-Slavic *letě̀ti (to fly)), from the Proto-Indo-European root *lek-, *lak- (to hop, leap, throw).[1][2]

Verb

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lēkt (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present lecu, lec, lec, past lēcu)

  1. to jump
  2. to leap
  3. to vault
  4. to hop
  5. to spring
  6. to skip
  7. to bound
  8. to bounce
  9. to rise (of a celestial body)
    Saule lēca austrumos
    The sun was rising in the East.

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*letěti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 271
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “lėkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 278