virst

Underlyingly *virt-ti, an iR-vocalization of the zero grade version of Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn; to become”). The original meaning of the verb was "to become" (without any negative connotations.)^[1]

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virst (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present virstu, virsti, virst, past virtu)

1. (with iz-) to degenerate, become perverted

• izvirtība (“decadence”)
• izvirtulis (“pervert”)
• izvirtis (“perverted”)
• izvirst

Underlyingly *vird-ti. Same origin as Latvian virt (“to bubble, boil”) (verdu, virdu) Lithuanian virti (“to boil”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to boil”), with the infinitive from zero grade and present from full grade.^[2]

As the modern izvirst has been relegated to outbursts or eruptions (of a volcano, emotions, etc.) it is practically never used in the present tense, consequently most natives will not know how to conjugate it in present, especially because it shows ablaut, present marker -st- will most likely be used.

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virst (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present virstu, virsti, virst, past virdu)

1. (with iz-) to erupt

• izvirdums (“eruption”)
• izvirst
• verdošs (“scalding, boiling”)
• viršanas temperatūra (“boiling point”)

virst

1. Alternative form of vursth
   • 1927, “ZONG OF TWI MAARKEET MOANS”, in THE ANCIENT DIALECT OF THE BARONIES OF FORTH AND BARGY, COUNTY WEXFORD, page 129, line 11:

     In durk Ich red virst mee left-vooted shoe."

     In the dark I happened first on my left-footed shoe."

• Kathleen A. Browne (1927) The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland Sixth Series, Vol.17 No.2, Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, page 129