maudyti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *m(a)ūˀ- (to wash, submerge), and cognate with Proto-Slavic *mỳti (to wash). Further origin outside of Balto-Slavic is uncertain; the root is generally reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *mewH-, which Derksen and Fraenkel take to be the same as *mew- (to move), with semantic shift "to move" > "to move in water" > "to submerge". By surface analysis, the causative formation of máuti (to put on, tear, pull, stab, strike, dash).[1]

It is worth noting that various descendants of *mew- (to move) seem to carry connotations of fine, specialized, and skilled movements; compare Sanskrit मूत (mūta, a woven basket), Sanskrit मव्यति (mavyati, to bind) (whence the first component of English Muay Thai).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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máudyti (third-person present tense máudo, third-person past tense máudė)

  1. to bathe

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “maudyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 307