Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kimśtei (to cram), apparently from a Proto-Indo-European *k⁽ʷ⁾emḱ- (id), but without any known cognates outside of Balto-Slavic. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *čę̑stъ (frequent, dense) (whence Polish częsty (id));[1] the past passive participle form of this verb, kim̃štas, is particularly close in form to the Slavic cognates.[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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kim̃šti (third-person present tense kem̃ša, third-person past tense kim̃šo)

  1. (transitive) to stuff, to cram, to fill[3]
    kimšti dešras - to stuff sausages

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Participle

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kimštì (past passive)

  1. nominative masculine plural of kimštas

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “kimšti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 244
  2. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “częsty”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 78
  3. ^ “kimšti” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN