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Lithuanian
Etymology
Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“to skew, to crook, to split”), cognate with Latvian gìbt (“to subside, to sink”), Proto-Germanic *kībaną (“to quarrel”).
Verb
geĩbti (third-person present tense gei̇̃bsta, third-person past tense gei̇̃bo)
- (originally) to decline
- Synonym: mažė́ti
- (intransitive) to wane, to fade away
- Synonyms: nỹkti, leĩpti
- (intransitive, figurative) to get worse
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
References
- “geibti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- “geibti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024