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dėl

See also: Appendix:Variations of "del"

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Proto-Slavic *děľa (“because of”).[1] Cognate with Latvian dēļ.

Pronunciation

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Preposition

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dė̃l

  1. for (because of)
    Avãrija įvỹko dėl rū̃ko.
    The accident happened because of the fog.

References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “dėl”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 120
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