[ʋʲɪʃˈtɐ]
KilmėBuck and Karulis derive the word from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“settlement”), with the chicken thus conceived as a "domestic bird". Smoczynski is implicitly skeptical of this derivation, and leaves the origin open.
Formosvištà(canonical, feminine, stress-pattern-2) · vi̇̀štos(plural) · vištà(nominative, singular) · vi̇̀štos(nominative, plural) · vi̇̀štos(genitive, singular) · vi̇̀štų(genitive, plural) · vi̇̀štai(dative, singular) · vi̇̀štoms(dative, plural) · vi̇̀štą(accusative, singular) · vištàs(accusative, plural) · vištà(instrumental, singular) · vi̇̀štomis(instrumental, plural) · vi̇̀štoje(locative, singular) · vi̇̀štose(locative, plural) · vi̇̀šta(singular, vocative) · vi̇̀štos(plural, vocative)