liesti

Etymology
From (whence also 🇨🇬), of  further origin.

Buck implicitly derives the Baltic from (by comparing to 🇨🇬), while Chantraine, Pokorny, and Smoczynski tentatively connect the Baltic root to 🇨🇬, with the original form and meaning of the Greek term supposedly being  and "to lovingly caress", from a. Rix favors this derivation, explaining the semantic shift in the Greek as "to touch the knees" > "to beseech"; however, Beekes is skeptical of the semantics.

Verb

 * 1) to touch
 * 2) to disturb