geibti

Lithuanian

Alternative forms

• gỹbti

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *geybʰ- (“to skew, to crook, to split”), cognate with Latvian gìbt (“to subside, to sink”), Proto-Germanic *kībaną (“to quarrel”).

Verb

geĩbti (third-person present tense gei̇̃bsta, third-person past tense gei̇̃bo)

1. (originally) to decline

   Synonym: mažė́ti

2. (intransitive) to wane, to fade away

   Synonyms: nỹkti, leĩpti

3. (intransitive, figurative) to get worse

Conjugation

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• apgeibti
• išgeibti
• nugeibti
• sugeibti

Related terms

• gaĩšti (“to linger, to dwindle”)
• gìbras (“wicked, evil”)

References

• “geibti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
• “geibti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024