gobti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian gãbtiês (“snatch, grab”). There has been a lot of cross-contamination between phonetically and semantically similar terms, cf. gaũbti (“cover”), glóbti (“embrace”) and gróbti (“grab”), the latter of which is most likely the origin of the acute accentuation in this lemma. The original circumflex can be found in gãbana (“armful”), gabénti (“carry, transport”). This makes projecting a Proto-Balto-Slavic pre-form problematic.

If connected with Latin habeō (“have”), Old Irish gaibid (“take, seize”) then we may suggest a Proto-Indo-European root *gʰeh₁bʰ-. However, in view of the Lithuanian accentuation and Sanskrit गभस्ति (gábhasti-, “hand”), Rick Derksen suggests *gʰabʰ-, with Proto-Indo-European *a. Also compare Proto-Slavic *gabati (“seize”) and *xāpàti (“seize”), which also show unusual phonetic variation.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ɡoːpʲtʲɪ/

Verb

góbti (third-person present tense góbia, third-person past tense góbė)

cover (up), wrap (up), shroud
Synonyms: gaubti, siausti, supti

Senõsios móters gálvą góbia baltà skarẽlė. ― The woman's head was wrapped in a white headscarf.
snatch, grab, take
Synonyms: glemžti, grobti

Declension

Conjugation of gobti

		singular (vienaskaita)			plural (daugiskaita)
		1^st person (pirmasis asmuo)	2^nd person (antrasis asmuo)	3^rd person (trečiasis asmuo)	1^st person (pirmasis asmuo)	2^nd person (antrasis asmuo)	3^rd person (trečiasis asmuo)
		aš	tu	jis/ji	mes	jūs	jie/jos
indicative (tiesioginė nuosaka)	present (esamasis laikas)	góbiu	góbi	góbia	góbiame, góbiam	góbiate, góbiat	góbia
	past (būtasis kartinis laikas)	góbiau	góbei	góbė	góbėme, góbėm	góbėte, góbėt	góbė
	past frequentative (būtasis dažninis laikas)	góbdavau	góbdavai	góbdavo	góbdavome, góbdavom	góbdavote, góbdavot	góbdavo
	future (būsimasis laikas)	góbsiu	góbsi	góbs	góbsime, góbsim	góbsite, góbsit	góbs
subjunctive (tariamoji nuosaka)		góbčiau	góbtum	góbtų	góbtumėme, góbtumėm, góbtume	góbtumėte, góbtumėt	góbtų
imperative (liepiamoji nuosaka)		—	góbk, góbki	tegóbia	góbkime, góbkim	góbkite, góbkit	tegóbia

Participles of gobti

Adjectival (dalyviai)
		active	passive
present		góbiąs, góbiantis	góbiamas
past		góbęs	góbtas
past frequentative		góbdavęs	—
future		góbsiąs, góbsiantis	góbsimas
participle of necessity		—	góbtinas
Adverbial
special (pusdalyvis)		góbdamas
half-participle (padalyviai)	present	góbiant
	past	góbus
	past frequentative	góbdavus
	future	góbsiant
manner of action (būdinys)		góbte, góbtinai

Derived terms

Related terms

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 184

[1] Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 184

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