verpti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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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 [script needed] (warp-ᶻᶦ, to wash, bathe, rub). The traditionally compared Ancient Greek ῥᾰ́πτω (rháptō, to sew together, stitch) is likely not cognate.[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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ver̃pti (third-person present tense ver̃pia, third-person past tense ver̃pė)

  1. to spin
  2. (dialectal) to stab; to dig

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ 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