anksti

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬; further origin outside of Baltic unclear. Various theories deriving the word from a metathesis of and comparing  and  are phonetically bold and semantically doubtful. Other derivations connecting the word to (for which see ) are dubious, due to the Sanskrit term seeming to derive from, while links to  and  are questionable.

Adverb

 * 1) early, prematurely