dėti

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dḗˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰeh₁-.[1][2]

Pronunciation

Verb

dė́ti (third-person present tense dẽda, third-person past tense dė́jo)[3]

  1. (transitive) to place, to lay, to put

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References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 125
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*děti I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 104
  3. ^ Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.