skrieti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian skriet (“to go, run, fly”), seemingly from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)krey- (“to turn”), and related to Proto-Slavic *krīdlò (“wing”),[1] as well as Proto-Balto-Slavic *kréiwas (“crooked”); see the latter for more.[2]

Pronunciation

Verb

skri̇́eti (third-person present tense skri̇́eja, third-person past tense skri̇́ejo)

  1. to rotate, circle
  2. to fly

Conjugation

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  • skriẽbti (“to draw circles”)
  • skriẽsti (“to rotate, circle”)
  • skri̇̀sti (“to fly”)

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “409”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page skrieti
  2. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “skriẽti”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 567
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