See also: ģintī and ģinti

Aromanian edit

Noun edit

ginti f

  1. Alternative form of gintã

Lithuanian edit

Etymology 1 edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-.[1]

Cognate with Latvian dzīt,[1] Old Prussian guntwei,[1] Polish gnać (to rush),[1][2] Ancient Greek θείνω (theínō, to kill)[1] and Sanskrit हन्ति (hánti, to slay).[1] See also ganýti (to graze).

Pronunciation edit

(file)

Verb edit

giñti (third-person present tense gẽna, third-person past tense gìnė) [3]

  1. (transitive) to drive (especially animals)
  2. to chase
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Participle edit

gintì m (past passive)

  1. nominative masculine plural of giñtas

Etymology 2 edit

Pronunciation edit

(file)

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gìnti (third-person present tense gìna, third-person past tense gýnė) [4]

  1. (transitive) to defend[5]
  2. to prohibit
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Participle edit

gintì m (past passive)

  1. nominative masculine plural of gìntas

References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 197
  2. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “gnać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 146
  3. ^ “giñti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  4. ^ “gìnti” in Balčikonis, op. cit.
  5. ^ “ginti” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN