šventas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian svèts (“holy”), Old Prussian swints (“holy”), Proto-Slavic *svętъ (“holy”). From Proto-Balto-Slavic *śwentas (“holy”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwen- (“holy”).

Adjective

šveñtas m (feminine šventà) stress pattern 4

  1. holy, sacred

Derived terms
  • šventasis (“saint”)

References
  • “šventas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
  • Derksen, Rick (2015), “šventas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 456
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