kabėti

Lithuanian

Etymology

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”), though cognates in other branches are unclear. 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.

Verb

kabė́ti (third-person present tense kãba, third-person past tense kabė́jo)

1. to hang

Declension

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Related terms

• kabóti (“to hang”)