versti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, rotate”). Cognate with Latvian vērst (“to turn over”).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

ver̃sti (third-person present tense ver̃čia, third-person past tense ver̃tė)

  1. to fell
  2. to turn over
  3. to pile up
  4. to turn to
  5. to reduce to
  6. to translate

Declension

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References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “versti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 498
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