šmaukt
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *smyauk-, from Proto-Indo-European *smeuk-, *meuk- (“slick, slimy, slippery, to slide”), from a stem *meu- (“humid”) (whence also mukt, maukt and šmaugs, q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian smaũkti (“to pluck, to pull, to roll up, to push, to shove, to caress, to deceive, to cheat, to go slowly”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ʃmàwkt]
Verb
šmaukt tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. šmaucu, šmauc, šmauc, past šmaucu
- (colloquial) to go quickly, to run
- suns pienāk pie durvīm un paraugās, kas ārā notiek... ja pamatīgi līst, mājas sargs šmauc atpakaļ virtuvē ― the dog comes to the door to check what is happening outside... if it is raining heavily, the house defender (= dog) runs back into the kitchen
- (colloquial, transitive) to cheat, to deceive
- šmaukt pircējus ― to cheat (one's) buyers, clients
- ak, kā mēs mīlam ar savu īsredzību sevi un citus šmaukt! ― oh, how we love to deceive ourselves and others with our short-sightedness!
- man tik un tā neticēs, jo es šos lāga cilvēkus, tīri negribēdams, biju šodien pietiekoši šmaucis ― people will sometimes not believe me, because I, totally unwillingly, have sufficiently deceived those nice people today
Conjugation
conjugation of šmaukt
| INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present (tagadne) | Past (pagātne) | Future (nākotne) | |||
| 1st pers. sg. | es | šmaucu | šmaucu | šmaukšu | — |
| 2nd pers. sg. | tu | šmauc | šmauci | šmauksi | šmauc |
| 3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | šmauc | šmauca | šmauks | lai šmauc |
| 1st pers. pl. | mēs | šmaucam | šmaucām | šmauksim | šmauksim |
| 2nd pers. pl. | jūs | šmaucat | šmaucāt | šmauksiet, šmauksit | šmauciet |
| 3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | šmauc | šmauca | šmauks | lai šmauc |
| RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
| Present | šmaucot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | šmaucošs | ||
| Past | esot šmaucis | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | šmaukdams | ||
| Future | šmaukšot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | šmaucot | ||
| Imperative | lai šmaucot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | šmaucam | ||
| CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | šmaucis | |||
| Present | šmauktu | Present Passive | šmaucams | ||
| Past | būtu šmaucis | Past Passive | šmaukts | ||
| DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
| Indicative | (būt) jāšmauc | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | šmaukt | ||
| Conjunctive 1 | esot jāšmauc | Negative Infinitive | nešmaukt | ||
| Conjunctive 2 | jāšmaucot | Verbal noun | šmaukšana | ||
Synonyms
- (of "run"): skriet, bēgt, (colloquial) mukt, (colloquial) desot
- (of "cheat"): krāpt, mānīt, maldināt
Derived terms
- prefixed verbs:
- aizšmaukt
- apšmaukt
- atšmaukt
- iešmaukt
- izšmaukt
- nošmaukt
- pašmaukt
- pāršmaukt
- piešmaukt
- uzšmaukt
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “šmaukt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN