pigus
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of unknown origin.[1] Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *peyg- (“inactive, reluctant”), and cognate with Latin piger (“dull, lazy”).[2]
Liukkonen mentions a Finnish pika (“quick, fast”) possibly being borrowed from the same origin as the Lithuanian; however, the existence of such a word in Finnish is in question[3] (pika in Finnish seems to exist only as a borrowing from English, referring to the lagomorph).
The family of words including pìktas (“angry, vicious”), peĩkti (“to blame, reprehend”), paĩkas (“silly, foolish”), pỹkti (“to be angry”), and pikùlas (“devil”) appears to be connected,[2][4] though this family seems to trace to a different Proto-Indo-European root; perhaps the two roots were confused within Baltic.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]pigùs m (feminine pigì, neuter pigù) stress pattern 4
Declension
[edit]Antonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “pigùs”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 457
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “pigùs”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 588
- ^ “pigus”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “piktas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 355
- ^ “pigus” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN