< Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic
Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/świtḗˀtei
Proto-Balto-Slavic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt-.
Verb
*świtḗˀtei
- to shine
Descendants
- Lithuanian: švitė́ti
- Latvian: kvitêt (analogical k-[1])
- Proto-Slavic: *svьtěti[2] (see there for further descendants)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “šviesti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 456
- Derksen, Rick (2008), “*svьtěti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 478