besti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bed-, *bod-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-, *bʰodʰh₂-. Cognate with Latvian best (“to dig, bury”), 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