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

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Verb

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

to be submerged (in something)

Declension

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Related terms

skę̃sti

References

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

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

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