Lithuanian "ieškoti" and Sanskrit इच्छति - a close relation

 

Lithuanian is a language that impressively maintains archaic features.

I have already dealt with some evident correspondences between Sanskrit and Lithuanian HERE and HERE.

This time I want to deal with a verbal structure. The verb ieškoti "to look (for), search (after, for); seek (after)"

Lithuanian ieškoti has a parallel in Sanskrit इच्छति icchati "to desire". which is part of the  Indo-European verbs in -sḱ. as in Ancient Greek -σκω or lat. -scō (Manfred Mayrhofer Sanskrit Grammatik p. 67).

Not only are the two languages ​​close structurally but also in meaning they preserve this closeness.

In fact, the Lithuanian dictionary LKZ explains the meaning of ieškoti with rūpintis rasti pamestą ar dingusį daiktą; norėti rasti, gauti reikalingą daiktą "take care of finding a lost or missing item; to want to find, get the thing you need" which is revealing of how the original sense of the verb has remained impregnated in the idea of ​​ieškoti.