gerbti
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise”).
Cognate with Old Prussian gērbt (“to speak”), and further related to Latvian garbât (“to care for, attend”), Lithuanian garbė̃ (“honor”).[1][2][3]
Verb
ger̃bti (third-person present tense ger̃bia, third-person past tense ger̃bė)
Declension
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Derived terms
- gerbėjas (“admirer”)
- gerbimas (“respect”)
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “gerbti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 171
- ^ “ger̃bti” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 358 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
- ^ “gerbti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “478”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 478
Further reading
- “gerbti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
- “gerbti”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025