skambėti
Appearance
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Latvian skanēt (“to sound, resound”) and skaņa (“sound”), with further origin outside of Baltic unclear. Perhaps related to Ancient Greek κόνᾰβος (kónăbos, “din, clash, ringing”), dialectal Swedish skanga (“to thud”),[1] or otherwise sound-symbolic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]skambė́ti (third-person present tense skam̃ba, third-person past tense skambė́jo)
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of skambėti
Participles of skambėti
Adjectival (dalyviai) | |||
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active | passive | ||
present | skam̃bąs, skam̃bantis | skam̃bomas | |
past | skambė́jęs | skambė́tas | |
past frequentative | skambė́davęs | — | |
future | skambė́siąs, skambė́siantis | skambė́simas | |
participle of necessity | — | skambė́tinas | |
Adverbial | |||
special (pusdalyvis) | skambė́damas | ||
half-participle (padalyviai) |
present | skam̃bant | |
past | skambė́jus | ||
past frequentative | skambė́davus | ||
future | skambė́siant | ||
manner of action (būdinys) | skambė́te, skambė́tinai |
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “skambė́ti”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 795