Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From a lengthened zero-grade of the same root as tìlti (to fall silent, subside).[1] By surface analysis, tyla (silence) +‎ -ėti.

Pronunciation

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Verb

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tylė́ti (third-person present tense tỹli, third-person past tense tylė́jo)

  1. (transitive) to silence
  2. (intransitive) to be quiet

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “tylėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 466