dalyti
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to split”). Cognate with Latvian dalît (“to divide, share”), Old Prussian dellieis (“(imperative 2nd singular) share!”), Proto-Slavic *odolě̀ti (“to overcome, defeat”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [d̪ɐˈlʲiː.tʲɪ]
Verb
dalýti (third-person present tense dali̇̀ja, third-person past tense dali̇̀jo)
- to divide, distribute
Declension
| singular vienaskaita | plural daugiskaita | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| aš | tu | jis/ji | mes | jūs | jie/jos | |||
| indicative | present | dalijù | daliji̇̀ | dali̇̀ja | dali̇̀jame, dali̇̀jam |
dali̇̀jate, dali̇̀jat |
dali̇̀ja | |
| past | dalijaũ | dalijai̇̃ | dali̇̀jo | dali̇̀jome, dali̇̀jom |
dali̇̀jote, dali̇̀jot |
dali̇̀jo | ||
| past frequentative | dalýdavau | dalýdavai | dalýdavo | dalýdavome, dalýdavom |
dalýdavote, dalýdavot |
dalýdavo | ||
| future | dalýsiu | dalýsi | dalýs | dalýsime, dalýsim |
dalýsite, dalýsit |
dalýs | ||
| subjunctive | dalýčiau | dalýtum, dalýtumei |
dalýtų | dalýtumėme, dalýtumėm, dalýtume |
dalýtumėte, dalýtumėt |
dalýtų | ||
| imperative | — | dalýk, dalýki |
tedali̇̀ja, tedali̇̀jie |
dalýkime, dalýkim |
dalýkite, dalýkit |
tedali̇̀ja, tedali̇̀jie | ||
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Derived terms
- dali̇̀nti (“to divide”)
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “dalyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 114