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Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”), related to Proto-Slavic *strujiti (“to gush, to flow”). Per Derksen, probably of secondary origin with metatonic acute (in contrast to the circumflex in Lithuanian sravė́ti (“to flow”), sravà (“bleeding”), sraujà (“jet, flow”)).
Verb
srū́ti (third-person present tense srū̃va, third-person past tense srùvo)
- (intransitive) to flow, to stream, to run (for fluid)
- Synonyms: sravė́ti, tekė́ti
Conjugation
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Derived terms
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “srūti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 425
- “srūti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- “srūti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024