besti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bed-, *bod-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰ-, *bʰodʰ-. Cognate with Latvian best (“to dig, burry”), Old Prussian embaddusisi (“they stick”), Proto-Slavic *bosti (“to stab, sting”), and Latin fodio (“to dig”).

Verb

bèsti (third-person present tense bẽda, third-person past tense bẽdė)

  1. to stick, drive (into), dig

References
  • Derksen, Rick (2015), “besti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 88-89
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