Lithuanian

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Etymology

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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

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

  1. to stick, drive (into), dig

References

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  • 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