veikti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (overcome), with semantic shift "overcome, conquer" > "achieve, work". Cognate with Latvian vèikt.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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veĩkti (third-person present tense veĩkia, third-person past tense veĩkė)[2]

  1. to act, work, function, operate, affect
    Antonym: neveikti

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “veĩkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 494
  2. ^ veikti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024