kalti

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Afar

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kalˈti/
  • Hyphenation: kal‧ti

Noun

kaltí f 

  1. removal
  2. (mathematics) subtraction

References

  • Mohamed Hassan Kamil (2015) L’afar: description grammaticale d’une langue couchitique (Djibouti, Erythrée et Ethiopie), Paris: Université Sorbonne Paris Cité (doctoral thesis)

Lithuanian

Etymology 1

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kálˀtei (to forge, strike).

Cognates include Latvian kalt, Russian коло́ть (kolótʹ, to stab, to prick), and Latin calamitas f (damage).[1][2]

Pronunciation

  • (verb) IPA(key): /ˈkalʲtʲɪ/

Verb

kálti (third-person present tense kãla, third-person past tense kãlė)[3][4]

  1. to hammer, to strike
  2. to forge, to hammer
    Kalk geležį, kol karšta.[5]
    Strike while the iron is hot.
  3. to mint, to strike
  4. (figuratively) to cram; to swot (UK)
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Participle

kalti m (past passive participle)

  1. nominative masculine plural of kaltas

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Pronunciation

Adjective

kaltì m

  1. nominative/vocative masculine plural of kaltas

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “kalti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 222
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 230
  3. ^ “kalti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  4. ^ “kalti” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
  5. ^ geležis” in Balčikonis, op. cit..

Old High German

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *kaldī, equivalent to kalt (cold) +‎ .

Noun

kaltī f

  1. coldness

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Descendants

  • Middle High German: kelte