turėti

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *twerH- (to enclose, grab). Cognate to Latvian turēt, Latin tueor, Old Church Slavonic творити (tvoriti).

Pronunciation

Verb

turė́ti (third-person present tense tùri, third-person past tense turė́jo)

  1. (with accusative) to have
  2. (with infinitive) to have to (to need to do something)
    Àš turiù eĩti į̃ mokỹklą
    I have to go to school

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References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 475