pirkt – Latvian verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive	pirkt
Negative Infinitive	nepirkt
Verbal Noun	pirkšana

Indicative

Imperative

Sg.2	pērc
Sg.3	lai pērk
Pl.1	pirksim
Pl.2	pērciet
Pl.3	lai pērk

Verbs conjugated like pirkt

pirkt,

Etymology

This word is traditionally derived from Proto-Baltic *per-k-, *pr̥k-, from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“taking over, past something”) (whence Latvian prepositions par, pār, q.v.), as a verb “to take over, past (somewhere)” > “to take (somewhere) to sell” > “to sell”, with an extra k. With this meaning, cf. Ancient Greek περνάναι (pernánai), πιπράσκειν (pipráskein, “to sell, to export”), and Old Irish renim (“I sell”) (< *pr̥-nā-). In the Baltic languages, the meaning “to sell” became “to buy,” given the nature of buying and selling as two aspects of the same two-sided event. From the same stem also prece (“product, ware, merchandise”), q.v. A more recent suggestion is that pirkt may derive from another Proto-Indo-European stem *per- (“to hit”) (whence pērkons (“thunder”), q.v.), with as original meaning “to rob, to plunder;” in several Indo-European languages, verbs of buying originate from verbs of taking (cf. Latin emere (“to buy”), earlier “to take”). Cognates include Lithuanian pir̃kti. See: Latin 'emere'.

Verbs referencing "pirkt"

Lithuanian pirkti.

Translations

buy, to obtain something with money