sviets

Samogitian

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Balto-Slavic *śwaitas, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt-. Compare Belarusian свет (svjet), obsolete Lithuanian svietas, Polish świat, Russian свет (svet).

Noun

sviets m

1. world

References

• “Žemaičių Žodynas”, in Žemaičių žemė‎^[1], number 86 (overall work in Lithuanian), 2012 April, page 24: “Sviets — pasaulis”