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Lithuanian
Etymology
Cognate with Latvian dil̃t (“to rub off, wear out, emaciate, diminish, become blunt”)
Verb
dìlti (third-person present tense dỹla, third-person past tense dìlo)
- to rub off, wear out, diminish, vanish
- to live in poverty, linger (colloquial)
- to become weak (dialectal)
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “dilti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130