dėbti
Lithuanian edit
Etymology edit
Has been compared with Lithuanian dúoba (“hollow, barn”), Lithuanian dóbti (“to smash, to hit”), Latvian dâbt (“to beat, to strike”).
Possibly related to Proto-Slavic *děbati (“to beat, to knock; to seek advantage”) (whence dialectal Czech debati, Russian дябать (djabatʹ), Bulgarian дябам (djabam)).
Verb edit
dė̃bti (third-person present tense dė̃bia, third-person past tense dė̃bė)
- (dialectal, transitive) to cross, to intercept
- (dialectal, intransitive) to support
Derived terms edit
References edit
- “dėbti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- “dėbti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024