lasīt

Pronunciation: [lasîːt]

“lasīt” is a Latvian word. Its 9 meanings in English:

verb

to read (to perceive and understand written language, a word, sentence, text, etc.)
to read (to understand the meaning of symbols, signs, pictures, plans, etc.)
to read (to sense, to perceive through its external manifestations) (of mental states)
to read, to lecture (to express, to communicate, to explain (a topic) in a lecture, presentation, etc.; to teach a topic (e.g., at a university)) (of topics, subjects)
to read, to recite (to read aloud, following the meter and rhyme) (of poems)
to pick, to collect, by plucking or from the ground, usually one at a time
to pick from, to take out of (somewhere), usually one at a time
to gather, to collect
to gather (people)

Etymology

Originally the iterative form (with ablaut) of an earlier verb lest, used with respect to birds (“to pick with one's beak”; cf. Lithuanian lèsti, and the related lēst “to calculate”), from Proto-Baltic *les-tei, *lest-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *les- (“to pick, to gather”), perhaps derived from the stem *el- (“to bend”), via a meaning such as “to pick (something) while bending down.” The later…

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