vaikščioti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Related to vỹkti (go), veĩkti (do, act), vaikýti (chase) + -(i)oti (verb suffix).[1][2] From Proto-Indo-European *weyk- (overcome).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈvä̂ɪ̯kʲɕtɕɔt̪ʲɪ]

Verb

váikščioti (third-person present tense váikščioja, third-person past tense váikščiojo)

  1. to take a walk / stroll

Conjugation

Derived terms

References

  1. Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965), “vaikýti”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 1181
  2. Wojciech Smoczyński (1995), “Etymological remarks IV: váikščioti”, in Baltistica, volume 30, issue 1, →DOI
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