OriginFrom Proto-Balto-Slavic *bed-, *bod-, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰedʰh₂-, *bʰodʰh₂-. Cognate with Latvian best (“to dig, bury”), Old Prussian embaddusisi (“they stick”), Proto-Slavic *bosti (“to stab, sting”), and Latin fodio (“to dig”).
- to stick, drive (into), dig
Formsbèsti(canonical) · bẽda(present, third-person) · bẽdė(past, third-person)
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