nykštys

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬. The form is attested in the writings of Jonas Bretkūnas, but his mother was a native speaker of Old Prussian, casting doubt on its Lithuanian authenticity.

Possible etymologies for the Baltic term include:
 * From (🇨🇬),  (🇨🇬, ), as conjectured by Toporov and Hilmarsson. According to Hilmarsson, the PIE reconstruction could be *h₁n̥- h₁n̥ḱ-ti-, and the Proto-Baltic term could be *inn(k)šti- or *nin(k)šti-.
 * From, according to Derksen. The initial n- must have been lost in Latvian and Old Prussian under this theory.
 * From (cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), with secondary -n- and intrusive k . By analogy with the derivation of  from, cf.

Similarities with 🇨🇬 and its cognates have been noted, and some have proposed those words either influenced the word for "thumbs" or share an etymology.

Noun

 * 1) thumb