dengti

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *deng-, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ-, *dʰn̥gʰ- (“to cover, conceal”). The original meaning of "dress, cover" is preferable to Mažiulis's suggestion of "bend" (cf. dangà (“arc”)), in view of Ukrainian одягти́ (odjahtý, “put on, wear”), Old High German tungen (“oppress, manure”), Proto-Germanic *dungō (“manure, dung”). The "bend" connotations that some descendants carry is a simple semantic extension of "cover" (e.g. an arch bends and covers its range).^[1]

IPA^(key): /ˈdʲɛŋk.tʲɪ/

deñgti (third-person present tense deñgia, third-person past tense deñgė)

1. cover (place or be over or upon)

   Tam̃sūs dẽbesys deñgia dañgų.

   Dark clouds cover the sky.

   Jì válgomajame deñgė stãlą.

   She laid out a spread on the dining room table.

2. clothe, dress

   Jų̃ žemė visùs dengė ir̃ maitino.

   Their land fed and clothed all of them.

3. defend, advocate vindicate
4. (sports) mark (focus defensive activities on a certain player)

• dengtis
• dengimas, dengimasis

• dangus, danga
• dingti

Connected to Latvian diêgt (“walk briskly”), Belarusian dialectal дзя́жыць (dzjážycʹ, “beat, torment; run quickly”), with further origin unclear.^[2] Possibly connected to Latvian dęñkts (“strong, healthy, important”) (itself related to Old Irish daingen (“firm, fast, solid”)), Old English tengan (“to press, hurry”), Ancient Greek τᾰχῠ́ς (takhús, “swift, fast”).

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déngti (third-person present tense déngia, third-person past tense déngė)

2. (colloquial) to rush, hurry, etc. (move, consume or beat etc., with haste or urgency)