girdėti

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Lithuanian

Etymology

Perhaps from a Proto-Indo-European *gʷerdʰ- (to sound), which appears to be related to *gʷerH- (to praise, recite); the suffix *dʰ- may be from *dʰeh₁- (to do, put, place). Cognate with Latvian dzirdēt; outside of Baltic, compare especially Old Armenian կարդամ (kardam, to shout, call).[1]

Verb

girdė́ti (third-person present tense gir̃di, third-person past tense girdė́jo) [2]

  1. (transitive) to hear[3]

Conjugation

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References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “girdėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 178
  2. ^ “girdėti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  3. ^ “girdėti” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN