Sakyti

Sakyti is a term occasionally found in Lithuanian-language texts, generally treated as a nonstandard or dialectal variant of the verb sakyti, which means "to say" or "to tell." In modern standard Lithuanian, the infinitive form is sakyti, and this is the form most widely taught and used in contemporary writing.

Etymology and form

The root sak- is shared with related Baltic-language forms and underlies the meaning related to speech. The typical Lithuanian infinitive suffix for this class of verbs is -yti, as in sakyti. When sakyti appears, it is usually considered an alternate spelling rather than a separate lexeme, and it is not part of the standard modern orthography.

Usage notes

Sakyti is uncommon in edited, contemporary Lithuanian texts. Its occurrences are typically attributed to dialectal variation, historical orthography, or typographical/ OCR errors in digitized texts. In practice, readers encountering sakyti should understand it as referring to the same verb meaning "to say" and interpret it using the standard sakyti paradigm for conjugation and grammar.

Relation to standard language

Scholarly and editorial references generally treat sakyti as a variant rather than a separate word with distinct meanings. For everyday use and formal writing, sakyti is the preferred form, and all standard conjugations and syntactic constructions apply to sakyti as the correct infinitive.

See also

sakyti; Lithuanian verbs; Baltic languages.