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skersti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Baltic *skerd-ti, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kerdʰ- (to cut), an extension of *(s)ker- (to cut). Cognate with Latvian šķērst (to dissect), Middle High German scherzen (to cut off, shorten), Proto-Germanic *skurtaz (short), Proto-Slavic *skorda (harrow);[1] see also Lithuanian skrósti (to dissect), Latvian šķirt (to part; to divorce).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sker̃sti (third-person present tense sker̃džia, third-person past tense sker̃dė)

  1. to slaughter
    Hypernym: žudyti (murder)
  2. to massacre
  3. to cut

Conjugation

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Synonyms

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “skersti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 403-4