Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/péktei

This Proto-Balto-Slavic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Balto-Slavic

Etymology

  • From Proto-Indo-European *pékʷeti (to be cooking). The Baltic forms have experienced metathesis.

    Verb

    *péktei[1][2]

    1. to bake

    Descendants

    • East Baltic:
      • Latgalian: cept
      • Latvian: cept
      • Lithuanian: kèpti
    • Proto-Slavic: *peťì (see there for further descendants)

    References

    1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008), “*pektì”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 393:*pek-
    2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “kepti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 237:*pek-