Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Cognate with Old Prussian quoitā (wants), quoi ((I/you) want), quāits (desire), from a Proto-Baltic *kwit-,[1] perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeh₂- (to acquire, seek) and cognate with Latin quaerō (to seek, question).[2] Older comparisons to Lithuanian káitėti (to lack, be wanting), Old East Slavic свѣтъ (světŭ, world; society), and Latin invītō (to invite) have formal and semantic issues.[3]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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kviẽsti (third-person present tense kviẽčia, third-person past tense kviẽtė)

  1. to invite

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “kviẽsti”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 331
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “quaerō, quaesō”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 503-4
  3. ^ kviesti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012