lėkti
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Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *lekt-, from Proto-Indo-European *lek- (“to jump, scuttle”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *letě̀ti (“to fly”).[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
lė̃kti (third-person present tense lẽkia, third-person past tense lė̃kė)
- to fly
Conjugation
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References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “lėkti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 278