žadas

Unclear. Comparison has been tentatively drawn to formally incompatable:

• Russian гада́ть (gadátʹ, “to divine, to tell fortunes”) (from Proto-Slavic *gadati (“to guess”)).
• Ancient Greek γηθέω (gēthéō, “to be glad”) (per Blažek). For further explanation, see žõdis.

žãdas m (plural žadaĩ) stress pattern 4

1. speech, talk

   Synonyms: kalbà, šnekà

2. pledge, promise

• pãžadas (“promise”)

• žadė́ti (“to promise”)
• žõdis (“word, term”)

• “žadas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “žadas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012