žydėti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH-dʰ-, from *ǵeyH- (“to break open, germinate”); cognate with Proto-Germanic *kīnaną (“to split open, sprout”). See also žíedėti (“to become hard and moldy”), žíedas (“blossom, ring”).

Verb

žydė́ti (third-person present tense žýdi, third-person past tense žydė́jo)

1. to flower, bloom

Conjugation

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Further reading

• “žydėti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024