sintėti

See also: sînteți

Samogitian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Indo-European *sent- (“to think, to perceive”). Cognate with Latin sentiō (“to feel”), Old High German sinnan (“to desire”). See also Lithuanian sių̃sti.

Verb

sintė́ti

1. to think, to consider

Etymology 2

From sintìs (“shortness of breath”) +‎ -ėti, possibly related to sens (“old”).

Verb

sintė́ti

1. to breathe heavily

Further reading

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “sintėti I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 398
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “sintėti II”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 398
• Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “sintìs”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 1095