Related to virpėti (“to tremble, quiver”), virpulys (“trembling”). There are a cluster of Baltic words hypothesized to be related such as verpti (“to spin”), varpyti (“to dig, make holes”), Latvian virpēt (“to twist with a spindle; to shake”), Latvian virpulis (“whirlpool”). Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to twist, turn”), shared with Latin verber, Proto-Germanic *warpą, Ancient Greek ῥάπτω (rháptō), dial. Slovene vŕpati (“to turn, to grab, to ditch”), dial. Russian верпеть (verpetʹ, “to spring”), Bulgarian върпина (vǎrpina, “pond, whirlpool”).
var̃pas m stress pattern 4
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | var̃pas | varpaĩ |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | var̃po | varpų̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | var̃pui | varpáms |
| accusative (galininkas) | var̃pą | varpùs |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | varpù | varpaĩs |
| locative (vietininkas) | varpè | varpuosè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | var̃pe | varpaĩ |
várpas