skaitīt

Etymology
From, from , an ablaut variant of.

The original meaning was thus “cut (off)”, apparently a reference to incisions made on wood to mark numbers or quantities (a custom found among many peoples, and also among ancient Latvians); the noun “number” would have originally meant “incision”, and the verb  “to make incisions” > “to mark the number”, “to count”.

It is also possible that another stem, proposed by some researchers as the source of : 🇨🇬 (> 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, ), has converged historically with in this word.

Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, “to read, to count”, from earlier 🇨🇬 or  (🇨🇬, first person present tense, 🇨🇬, dialectal and archaic , 🇨🇬, dialectal , 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, Old 🇨🇬), 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Verb

 * 1) to count to say the numbers in order
 * 2) to count to establish how many objects, people, etc. there are in a given group by assigning to each of them a number in order
 * 3) to count to measure the time from a certain event on
 * 4) to count (syllables), to scan, to recite (poetry), to pray prayer)
 * vīri un sievas... klusībā skaita tēvreizi — men and women... quietly recited the Lord's prayer
 * 1) to recite to speak monotonously, usually repeating the same words
 * Gunta jau attin ēdamlietu saini pie galda un skaita skaļā balsī: “halva, pīrāgi, kotletes, sviests, rieksti” — Gunta unwrapped the foodstuffs on the table and recited aloud: “halva, pies, meatballs, butter, nuts”
 * 1) to count (something) as (something) to consider something as part of some group; to believe something to be true, to have happened
 * 1) to count to measure the time from a certain event on
 * 2) to count (syllables), to scan, to recite (poetry), to pray prayer)
 * vīri un sievas... klusībā skaita tēvreizi — men and women... quietly recited the Lord's prayer
 * 1) to recite to speak monotonously, usually repeating the same words
 * Gunta jau attin ēdamlietu saini pie galda un skaita skaļā balsī: “halva, pīrāgi, kotletes, sviests, rieksti” — Gunta unwrapped the foodstuffs on the table and recited aloud: “halva, pies, meatballs, butter, nuts”
 * 1) to count (something) as (something) to consider something as part of some group; to believe something to be true, to have happened
 * 1) to count to measure the time from a certain event on
 * 2) to count (syllables), to scan, to recite (poetry), to pray prayer)
 * vīri un sievas... klusībā skaita tēvreizi — men and women... quietly recited the Lord's prayer
 * 1) to recite to speak monotonously, usually repeating the same words
 * Gunta jau attin ēdamlietu saini pie galda un skaita skaļā balsī: “halva, pīrāgi, kotletes, sviests, rieksti” — Gunta unwrapped the foodstuffs on the table and recited aloud: “halva, pies, meatballs, butter, nuts”
 * 1) to count (something) as (something) to consider something as part of some group; to believe something to be true, to have happened
 * 1) to recite to speak monotonously, usually repeating the same words
 * Gunta jau attin ēdamlietu saini pie galda un skaita skaļā balsī: “halva, pīrāgi, kotletes, sviests, rieksti” — Gunta unwrapped the foodstuffs on the table and recited aloud: “halva, pies, meatballs, butter, nuts”
 * 1) to count (something) as (something) to consider something as part of some group; to believe something to be true, to have happened
 * 1) to count (something) as (something) to consider something as part of some group; to believe something to be true, to have happened

Derived terms

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