skélti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *(s)kelH- (“to split”).[1]

Verb

skélti (third-person present tense skélia, third-person past tense skělė)

  1. to crack, split

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “(s)kel-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 923-27
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