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pirkt

pirkt

Latvian

Verb

pirkt tr., 1st conj., pres. pērku, pērc, pērk, past pirku

  1. to buy, to purchase (to obtain, to acquire something by paying an appropriate amount of money)
    pirkt pārtiku‎ ― to buy groceries
    pirkt lakatu, zābakus‎ ― to buy a scarf, boots
    pirkt gleznu‎ ― to buy a painting
    pirkt biļetes‎ ― to buy tickets
    dārgi, lēti pirkt‎ ― to buy at an expensive, cheap price
    izdēvīgi pirkt‎ ― to buy at a convenient price
    pirkt par skaidru naudu‎ ― to buy (for) cash (lit. for clear money)
    pirkt skaidrā naudā‎ ― to buy cash (lit. in clear money)
    pirkt uz kredīta, uz nomaksu‎ ― to buy on credit, by installments
    viņš brauca uz Igauniju pirkt jaunu zirgu‎ ― he went to Estonia to buy a new horse
    viņa pirka tikai pašu visnepieciešamako‎ ― she bought only the most necessary (things)
    visi pērk, tātad arī man jāpērk‎ ― everybody is buying, so I also have to buy
  2. (figuratively) to buy (to obtain something with effort, with sacrifice)
    par milzīgu asinscenu pirkta uzvara pār fašismu‎ ― the victory over fascism was bought with an enormous price in blood

Conjugation

Antonyms

  • pārdot

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:
  • appirkt
  • atpirkt
  • iepirkt
  • izpirkt
  • nopirkt
  • piepirkt
  • sapirkt
  • uzpirkt
other derived terms:

References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “pirkt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Etymology

This word is traditionally derived from Proto-Baltic *per-k-, *pr̥k-, from Proto-Indo-European *per- ‎(“taking over, past something”) (whence Latvian prepositions par, pār, q.v.), as a verb “to take over, past (somewhere)” > “to take (somewhere) to sell” > “to sell”, with an extra k. With this meaning, cf. Ancient Greek περνάναι ‎(pernánai), πιπράσκειν ‎(pipráskein, “to sell, to export”), and Old Irish renim ‎(“I sell”) (< *pr̥-nā-). In the Baltic languages, the meaning “to sell” became “to buy,” given the nature of buying and selling as two aspects of the same two-sided event. From the same stem also prece ‎(“product, ware, merchandise”), q.v. A more recent suggestion is that pirkt may derive from another Proto-Indo-European stem *per- ‎(“to hit”) (whence pērkons ‎(“thunder”), q.v.), with as original meaning “to rob, to plunder;” in several Indo-European languages, verbs of buying originate from verbs of taking (cf. Latin emere ‎(“to buy”), earlier “to take”). Cognates include Lithuanian pir̃kti.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [pìɾkt]

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