vadinti
Ido
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vaˈdinti/
Verb
vadinti
- plural nominal past active participle of vadar
Lithuanian
Alternative forms
- vadýti (dialectal)
Etymology
Etymology disputed.[1][2][3][4] Either:
- From Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to lead”). Related to vèsti (“to lead”), vãdas, vadõvas (“leader”), Latvian vadinât (“to lead, accompany, urge, lure”).
- From Proto-Indo-European *h₂wedH- (“sound, speak”). Related to Proto-Slavic *vaditi (“to argue, scold”), Sanskrit वदति (vadati, “to speak, tell”), perhaps Ancient Greek αὐδή (audḗ, “voice”).
Verb
vadìnti (third-person present tense vadìna, third-person past tense vadìno)
- to call, name, designate
- to invite, ask
Derived terms
Derived terms
- vadìnimas
- vadìntojas
- vadìntis (“to be called”)
References
- Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965), “vadìnti”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 1177
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “vadyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 484
- “vadìnti” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 1342 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
- “vadinti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
Further reading
- “vadinti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
- “vadinti”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2023