verpti
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Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *werp- (“to spin, rake”). Cognate with Latvian vērpt (“to spin”), Old Prussian etwiērpt (“to forgive”), powiērpt (“to leave”), Old Church Slavonic вьрпсти (vĭrpsti, “to pluck, tear off, rake”), Hittite (warp-ᶻᶦ, “to wash, bathe, rub”). The traditionally compared Ancient Greek ῥᾰ́πτω (rháptō, “to sew together, stitch”) is likely not cognate.[1]
Pronunciation
Verb
ver̃pti (third-person present tense ver̃pia, third-person past tense ver̃pė)
Declension
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References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “verpti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 497-8