gyti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gīˀw- (“to live”) (with semantic shift "to live" > "to recover and heal"), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷeih₃w- (“id”).[1] Cognate with Latvian dzīvot, Proto-Slavic *živěti, *žiti, Sanskrit जीवति (jī́vati), Latin vīvō (“to live”).

Verb

gýti (third-person present tense gỹja, third-person past tense gìjo)

  1. to heal
  2. to recover

Derived terms

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 179
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