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Lithuanian
Etymology
Possibly akin to Proto-Slavic *krojiti (“to cut off, to pattern”), *krь(jь) (“around”), from Proto-Indo-European *krey- (“to split, to separate”).
Verb
kriẽti (third-person present tense krẽja, third-person past tense krẽjo)
- (transitive) to wrap, to stretch, to expand, to develop
- (transitive) to fish
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
References
- “krieti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- “krieti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012