tiesti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Smoczynski tentatively connects the word to tesė́ti (“to keep up with work; to suffice”), and leaves the further origin of both open. A connection to Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ- (“to create; to cut”) seems semantically feasible. Note also similarities in form and meaning to tę̃sti (“to continue, extend”), the latter from Proto-Indo-European *tens- (“to stretch”).

Verb

tiẽsti (third-person present tense tiẽsia, third-person past tense tiẽsė)

1. to stretch
2. to straighten
3. to lead (a road, etc.)
4. to lay (a bridge, etc.)
5. to spread (a table)

Conjugation

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