tekėti

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tek-, from Proto-Indo-European *tekʷ-. Cognates include Latvian tecēt, Serbo-Croatian тећи/teći (to flow), Sanskrit तक्ति (tákti, to rush) and Old Irish techid (to flee).

Pronunciation

Verb

tekė́ti (third-person present tense tẽka, third-person past tense tekė́jo)

(intransitive)

  1. to flow
    upė teka - a river flows
    upelis teka - a brook flows
  2. (about celestial body): to rise
    saulė teka - the Sun rises
    žvaigždės teka - stars rise
  3. to marry (of a woman)
    marti teka - the bride marries

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See also

  • ((of a man) to marry): vesti

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 489
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 “tekėti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.