suprasti

Lithuanian

Etymology

su- (“co-”) +‎ prasti (“to acquire a habit or inclination”), the latter from Proto-Indo-European *pret- (“to understand”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sʊˈpɾɐsʲtʲɪ]

Verb

supràsti (third-person present tense suprañta, third-person past tense suprãto)

  1. to perceive, to get it; to understand

Conjugation

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 369
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