skendėti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *skend- (“to jump, dart, climb, scale, scan”), with semantic shift "jump, dart" > "jump into water" > "plunge into water" > "sink, drown". If so, then cognate with Latin scandō (“to climb, ascend”); see there for more cognates.[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

skéndėti (third-person present tense skéndi, third-person past tense skéndėjo)

  1. to be submerged (in something)

Declension

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References

  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “skę̃sti”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 561
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