zviegt
Latvian
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Etymology
editFrom Proto-Baltic *žweng-tey, *žweng-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰweng-tey, from *ǵʰwen- “to sound, to make a sound” (whence also the borrowing zvanīt) with an extra g. Cognates include Lithuanian žvéngti “to neigh, to laugh out loud,” žviẽgti “to neigh, to squeak, to shout loud.”[1]
Pronunciation
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Verb
editzviegt (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present zviedzu, zviedz, zviedz, past zviedzu)
- (only 3rd person, of horses) to neigh, to whinny (to produce a horse's typical cry)
- zirgi zviedz ― the horses are neighing
- kūtī viens pats atstāts, nemitīgi zviedza Lejassmeltēnu Jorģa ērzelis ― left alone in the barn, Lejassmeltēnu Jorgis' stallion neighed constantly
- to laugh out loud, uproariously
- tanī brīdī mani sagrāba smiekli... tas, protams, bija zemiski no manas puses, nenoliedzu... zviegt tādā brīdī ― at that moment I was overcome by laughter... this, of course, was very impolite from me, I don't deny... to laugh out loud at such a moment
- liekas, ka nekas tāds jocīgs uz skatuves nenotiktu, bet lejā it visi atkal sāk zviegt smeklos un aplaudē ― it seems that nothing funny would happen on the stage, but down below again everybody began to laugh out loud and applaud
Conjugation
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Derived terms
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References
edit- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “zviegt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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