ruoštis

Lithuanian

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. Probably from an innovative vowel alternant of the root *rauš- found in words like riáušės (“mutiny, riot”), itself likely related to raũsti (“to dig up, root up”),[1] from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rews-, itself an extension of *(H)rewH- (“to tear out, dig out”).[2]

Verb

ruõštis (third-person present tense ruošiasi, third-person past tense ruošėsi)

  1. to prepare

Conjugation

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

References
  1. Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “ruõštis”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 525
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015) “rausti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 378
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.