mirksėti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mirˀk-, and cognate with Latvian mir̂kšêt (“to blink”), Proto-Slavic *mь̀rknǫti (“to become dark”); see the Proto-Slavic for more.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

mirksė́ti (third-person present tense mi̇̀rksi, third-person past tense mirksė́jo)

  1. to blink

Declension

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  • mérkti (“to close one's eyes”)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “mirksėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 320
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