sakyti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *sek-, *sak-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *sákīˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *sekʷ- (“to say”).

Cognate to Latvian sacīt, Russian сочить (sočitʹ, “to emit (a liquid)”), German sagen (“to say”), English say and Latin inquam (“to say”). Compare sekti (“to follow”) from e-grade *sekʷ- (“to follow”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sɐˈkʲiːtʲɪ]

Verb

sakýti (third-person present tense sãko, third-person past tense sãkė)

  1. (transitive, with accusative) to say
  2. to tell

Conjugation

Derived terms

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