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traukti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Related to trūkti (to tear, break), Latvian traukt (to strike, knock down), and perhaps Proto-Germanic *þrukkijaną (to press on; to crowd), Old Norse þrūga (to threaten, menace), and Old High German drucken (to press).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈtɾaˑʊ̯kʲtʲɪ]

Verb

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tráukti (third-person present tense tráukia, third-person past tense tráukė)

  1. to pull
    Arklỹs tráukė vežìmą.
    The horse was pulling a cart.
  2. to draw, attract
  3. to blow (of a draft or wind etc.)
  4. to enter into a list

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “traukti”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 682-3