skambėti
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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 (kónabos, “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)
Declension
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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