paukštis

Etymology
From 🇨🇬; compare 🇨🇬 < *put-inas (compare 🇨🇬 dialectal ); 🇨🇬. The Lithuanian form can be explained as o-grade *pout- +, with a prothetic -k-. For similar examples, compare < *šaud-tas,  < *krist-,  < *pūt-slė.

The origin of the Balto-Slavic root is unclear. Smoczynski originally proposed a connection with 🇨🇬; compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, 🇨🇬. This derivation would imply that the Balto-Slavic term must originally have meant "chick"; compare dialectal,. However, he seems to have scrapped this etymology later on in favor of analyzing as deriving from an earlier  <, which would be a nominal derivation from a hypothetical  <  < , a denominal verb from. In this theory, Smoczynski takes as being from the o-grade of the same root that gives, with an original meaning of "something bloated".

Noun

 * 1) bird any animal of the subclass (formerly usually class)
 * 2)  a cunning, untrustworthy person