belsti
Lithuanian
Etymology
Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰewd- (“to beat”). Cognate with Latvian bel̂zt (“to strike”).
Verb
belsti (third-person present tense béldžia, third-person past tense béldė)
- to knock, make a noise
- (colloquial) to speak with animation
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015), “belsti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 86
- MacBain, Alexander; Mackay, Eneas (1911), “belsti”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, page buille