Reconstruction:Proto-Balto-Slavic/lēiˀstei

Etymology
Exact origin disputed, but perhaps ultimately from ~  whence 🇨🇬:
 * Derksen (EDBIL): From, related to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.
 * Rasmussen, Klingenschmitt: From, related to 🇨🇬, perhaps 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬 (via alternative extensions).
 * Smoczyński: Rebracketed from a dʰé-present of, whence 🇨🇬.

Reconstruction notes
Long grade per Stang (affirmed by Bammesberger), eventually shortened due to lenition of V̄R-diphthongs. Oxytone due to Latvian broken tone, hence no application of Hirt's law.

Rasmussen proposes short grade (due to pre-Balto-Slavic laryngeal metathesis) and stress on the root.

Verb

 * 1) to let, to allow
 * 2) to release, to set in motion
 * (in modern descendants) → to publish, to launch

Conjugation
Varying:
 * athematic present in Old Lithuanian
 * je-present in modern descendants

Fixed accent for later je-present conjugation. Possibly mobile accent for earlier athematic conjugation.

Derived terms

 * East Baltic:
 * West Baltic:
 * (per Cīzemers: "Nachlass eines Verstorbenen")
 * West Baltic:
 * (per Cīzemers: "Nachlass eines Verstorbenen")
 * West Baltic:
 * (per Cīzemers: "Nachlass eines Verstorbenen")
 * (per Cīzemers: "Nachlass eines Verstorbenen")

Related terms

 * *līˀd-
 * *līˀd-

Descendants
With е̄-vocalism:
 * East Baltic:

With a-vocalism:
 * East Baltic: