kabėti
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Durative formation from a root kib-, cognate with Latvian kabinat (“to hang, hook”) and Old Prussian kabīuns (“hung”), seemingly from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)kebʰ- (“to hook, bend, fasten”),[1] though cognates in other branches are unclear.[2] Often compared with Proto-Slavic *skobà (“shackle; clasp”) (as "hung fetters"), Proto-Slavic *xȍbotъ (“tail”) (as a "hooked body part"), Proto-Slavic *kobь (“fate”) (as a "course of events fastened onto an individual"), as well as with descendants of Proto-Indo-European *skabʰ- (“to scratch”) (perhaps with semantic shift "scratch" > "hook" > "hang"); these are all semantically uncertain.[3]
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]kabė́ti (third-person present tense kãba, third-person past tense kabė́jo)
- to hang
Declension
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Related terms
[edit]- kabóti (“to hang”)
References
[edit]- ^ “kabėti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “kabė́ti”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 241
- ^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “kabė́ti”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, pages 200-1