different between spriest vs spiest

English

Adjective

spriest

1. superlative form of spry: most spry

Anagrams

• Prestis, Sprites, persist, priests, respits, sitreps, sprites, stirpes, stripes

Latvian

Etymology

This word results from the merging of two stems: (a) Proto-Baltic *spriesti < *spried-ti < Proto-Indo-European *spreyd- (“to press, to squeeze, to block”) (cf. Sudovian cognate saspriziz (“squeeze, crush”)); and (b) Proto-Baltic *sprensti, from *sprend-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *sprend- (“to pull, to stretch, to jump”), from *per-, *sper- (“to pull, to kick, to scatter, to strew, to sputter”) (whence also Latvian spert and spr?g?t, q.v.). The meaning of the (b) forms, perhaps with some influence from the (a) forms, has became dominant, evolving from probably “to pull, to stretch, to drag”, via uses such as spr?di spriest “to stretch a span”, i.e., “to measure (a span, a gap) by stretching one's fingers”, to “measure” > “evaluate” > “judge”. The (a) form meaning has basically disappeared in standard Latvian, but it can still be found in several dialects, where spriest can still mean “press, squeeze”, and in the standard language in some derived terms (e.g., spriesties, iespriest, saspriest). Cognates of the (b) forms include Lithuanian spr??sti (“to drive, stick into, to squeeze through, to throw, to stretch; to tighten, to harness; to judge, to decide, to solve”), Old Church Slavonic ?????? (pr?sti, “to spin (yarn)”), Russian ?????? (prjast?), Ukrainian ??????? (prjásty), Bulgarian ?????? (predá, “I spin”), Czech p?ísti, Polish prz???.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [sp?i??st]

Verb

spriest (tr. or intr., 1st conj., pres. spriežu, spried, spriež, past spriedu)

1. to judge (to make or formulate an opinion, a judgment)

2. (law) to try, to judge (to decide a case in court, to make, to emit a judgment in court)

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (of "try in court"): ties?t

Derived terms

prefixed verbs:

other derived terms:

• aizspriedums
• spriedums
• spriesties

See also

• tiesa
• tiesnesis, tiesnese

References

English

Etymology

spy +? -est

Verb

spiest

1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present form of spy

Anagrams

• IP sets, pestis, pistes, spites, stipes