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Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg-. Cognate with Latvian der̂dzêtiês (“to quarrel, fight”), Old Prussian dergē (“hate”) 3pl., Middle High German terken, derken (“to make dark, soil, defile”).
Verb
dérgėti (third-person present tense dérgėja, third-person past tense dérgėjo)
- to spoil, waste, scorn, scold (dialectal, Old Lithuanian)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “dergėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 122