leit(i)

Latgalian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *l(e/o)ʔi-,[1] ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *ley- (“to flow, pour, stream; to glide, slip, be slippery”)

Pronunciation

  • (infinitive) IPA(key): [ˈlʲɛ͡i̯tʲ(i)]
  • Hyphenation: leit

Verb

leit(i)

  1. (intransitive) to flow, to rain
    lei kai nū spaņa ― it rains like a bucket

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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