giwatti
Sudovian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Proto-Baltic *gīˀwetei, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷíh₃weti. Compare Lithuanian gyvénti, dialectal gývoti, Old Prussian giwīt, but Latvian dzîvuôt, dialectal dzîvât.[1][2]
Verb
[edit]giwatti
- to live
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 11, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
References
[edit]- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, , page 73: “giwatti ‘gyventi, l. żyć’ 11.”
- ^ “gývas” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. vb. giwatti leben”.