< Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/bajā́ˀtei
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂-
Verb
*bajā́ˀtei[1]
- to fear, to be afraid
Descendants
- Lithuanian: bijóti
- Latvian: bijâtiês (“to be afraid”), bijât, bîtiês
- Old Prussian: biātwei
- Proto-Slavic: *bojàti (see there for further descendants)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*bojàti sę”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 50: “v. ‘fear, be afraid’”