kackint

čekati (Venc.) `wait, await' [verb]

čekát' (S., W. dial.) `wait, await' [verb]

čekati `wait, await' [verb];

čkáti `wait, await' [verb]

čȅkati `wait, await, expect' [verb], čȅkām [1sg];

Čak. čȅkati (Vrgada) `wait, await, expect' [verb], čȅkå̄š [2sg];

Čak. čȅkat (Orbanići) `wait' [verb], čȅkan [1sg]

Comments: Stang (1961: 68-69) has suggested that čekati is cognate with OPr. kackint `attain', Lith. kàkti `be sufficient' (cf. Toporov PJ 1980: 162-163 for the semantic development). In Slavic, we may originally have had * čekti alongside the intensive *čěkati. According to an older etymology (cf. Vasmer s.v. čekát'), * čeka- is a reduplicated variant of the root * keh₂- that we find in Lat. cārus `dear', MHG huore `whore' (note, however, that according to Schrijver (1996: 98, 112), the -r- belongs to the root here). It seems to me that Stang's scenario is preferable because it offers a solutio for the variation *ček-/čak-.