vadinti

Ido

vadinti

Etymology disputed.^[1]^[2]^[3]^[4] Either:

According to Trautmann and Buga, from Proto-Indo-European *wedʰ- (“to lead”). Related to vèsti (“to lead”), vãdas, vadõvas (“leader”), Latvian vadinât (“to lead, accompany, urge, lure”). Due to reasonable semantics and lack of conflict with Winter's Law, this derivation is preferred by Derksen.
According to Smoczynski, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wedH- (“sound, speak”). Related to Proto-Slavic *vaditi (“to argue, scold”), Sanskrit वदति (vadati, “to speak, tell”), perhaps Ancient Greek αὐδή (audḗ, “voice”). The semantics are a closer match than the derivation above, but the phonetics are in conflict with Winter's Law.

vadi̇̀nti (third-person present tense vadi̇̀na, third-person past tense vadi̇̀no)

to call
1. (transitive) to summon, beckon
2. (transitive) to name, designate, give title [with instrumental ‘title or role’]
  Freudą vadina psichoanalizės tėvu.
  Freud is called the father of psychoanalysis.
(transitive) to invite, ask

Conjugation of *vadinti*
		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person	1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person
		singular vienaskaita			plural daugiskaita
		aš	tu	jis/ji	mes	jūs	jie/jos
indicative tiesioginė nuosaka	present esamasis laikas	vadinù	vadini̇̀	vadi̇̀na	vadi̇̀name, vadi̇̀nam	vadi̇̀nate, vadi̇̀nat	vadi̇̀na
	past būtasis kartinis laikas	vadinaũ	vadinai̇̃	vadi̇̀no	vadi̇̀nome, vadi̇̀nom	vadi̇̀note, vadi̇̀not	vadi̇̀no
	past frequentative būtasis dažninis laikas	vadi̇̀ndavau	vadi̇̀ndavai	vadi̇̀ndavo	vadi̇̀ndavome, vadi̇̀ndavom	vadi̇̀ndavote, vadi̇̀ndavot	vadi̇̀ndavo
	future būsimasis laikas	vadi̇̀nsiu	vadi̇̀nsi	vadiñs	vadi̇̀nsime, vadi̇̀nsim	vadi̇̀nsite, vadi̇̀nsit	vadiñs
subjunctive tariamoji nuosaka		vadi̇̀nčiau	vadi̇̀ntum, vadi̇̀ntumei	vadi̇̀ntų	vadi̇̀ntumėme, vadi̇̀ntumėm, vadi̇̀ntume	vadi̇̀ntumėte, vadi̇̀ntumėt	vadi̇̀ntų
imperative liepiamoji nuosaka		—	vadi̇̀nk, vadi̇̀nki	tevadi̇̀na, tevadi̇̀nie	vadi̇̀nkime, vadi̇̀nkim	vadi̇̀nkite, vadi̇̀nkit	tevadi̇̀na, tevadi̇̀nie

Participles of vadinti

^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965), “vadìnti”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 1177
^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “vadyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 484
^ “vadìnti” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 1342 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
^ “vadinti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012