paukštis

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *put-, *pout-; compare Latvian putns < *put-inas (compare Lithuanian dialectal pùtinas (rooster)); Proto-Slavic *pъtákъ. The Lithuanian form can be explained as o-grade *pout- + -tis, with a prothetic -k-. For similar examples, compare šaukštas (spoon) < *šaud-tas, krikstas (baptism) < *krist-, pūkšlė (hives) < *pūt-slė.

The origin of the Balto-Slavic root is unclear. Smoczynski originally proposed a connection with Proto-Indo-European *put- (child, young); compare Latin putus (boy), Sanskrit पुत्र (putrá-, son, young of an animal), पोत (póta​, young of an animal), Avestan 𐬞𐬎𐬚𐬭𐬀- (puθra-, son). This derivation would imply that the Balto-Slavic term must originally have meant "chick"; compare dialectal paũtas (egg), putýtis (chick).[1] However, he seems to have scrapped this etymology later on in favor of analyzing paũkštis as deriving from an earlier *paukstis < *paustis, which would be a nominal derivation from a hypothetical *paustytis (to hatch from an egg) < *paus-styti < *paut-styti, a denominal verb from paũtas (egg).[2] In this theory, Smoczynski takes paũtas as being from the o-grade of the same root that gives pū̃sti (to blow), with an original meaning of "something bloated".[3]

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Noun

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paũkštis m (plural paũkščiai) stress pattern 2

  1. bird (any animal of the subclass (formerly usually class) Aves)
  2. (colloquial) a cunning, untrustworthy person

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References

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  1. ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (1990) 'Etimologijos pastabos' [Notes on Etymology], Baltistica, Volume 26, No. 2, pages 163-164.
  2. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “paũkštis”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 443
  3. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “paũtas”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[2] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 443-4