vadinti
Lithuanian
Alternative forms
- vadýti (dialectal)
Etymology
Etymology disputed.[1][2][3][4] Either:
- According to Trautmann and Buga, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to lead”). Related to vèsti (“to lead”), vãdas, vadõvas (“leader”), Latvian vadinât (“to lead, accompany, urge, lure”). Due to reasonable semantics and lack of conflict with Winter's Law, this derivation is preferred by Derksen.
- According to Smoczynski, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wedH- (“sound, speak”). Related to Proto-Slavic *vaditi (“to argue, scold”), Sanskrit वदति (vadati, “to speak, tell”), perhaps Ancient Greek αὐδή (audḗ, “voice”). The semantics are a closer match than the derivation above, but the phonetics are in conflict with Winter's Law.
Verb
vadìnti (third-person present tense vadìna, third-person past tense vadìno)
Derived terms
Derived terms
- vadìnimas
- vadìntojas
- vadìntis (“to be called”)
References
- Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “vadìnti”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 1177
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “vadyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 484
- “vadìnti” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 1342 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
- “vadinti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
Further reading
- “vadinti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- “vadinti”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024
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