mokyti

Lithuanian

Etymology

A causative form of mokėti (to know, be able to, pay). Cognate with Latvian mācīt.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈmôːkʲiːt̪ʲɪ]

Verb

mókyti (third-person present tense móko, third-person past tense mókė)

  1. (transitive) to teach[2]

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

(Verbs)

  • (reflexive) mokytis
  • išmokyti
  • pamokyti

(Nouns)

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 323
  2. “mokyti” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
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