abydyti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Old Belarusian abíditь.

Verb

abydyti (third-person present tense abydyja, third-person past tense abydyjo) (archaic, dialectical)

1. to mistreat, to wrong

Related terms

• abyda (“harm, injustice”)

Further reading

• Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “abydyti”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 2