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želti

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“green, yellow”). Cognate with Latvian zelt (“to grow green, flourish”); see also žãlias (“green; unripe”).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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žélti (third-person present tense žẽlia, third-person past tense žė́lė)

  1. to grow
  2. to grow green, flourish, sprout

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “želti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 514
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