Lithuanian edit

Etymology edit

Cognate with Latvian dairîties (to stare, to gaze) (o-grade) and likely Proto-Slavic *diriti (to seek, to look for). Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *deyH-r (to emit, to transcend).

Verb edit

dyrėti (third-person present tense dỹri, third-person past tense dyrė́jo)

  1. (transitive) to look, to stare, to watch for

Conjugation edit

Derived terms edit

Related terms edit

  • dairytis (to gaze) (o-grade ablaut, reflexive)
  • dýroti (to look for) (o-conjugation)

References edit

  • dyrėti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • dyrėti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “dyrėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 131