dergėti
Lithuanian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg-. Cognate with Latvian der̂dzêtiês (“to quarrel, fight”), Old Prussian dergē (“hate”) 3pl., Middle High German terken, derken (“to make dark, soil, defile”).
Verb
editdérgėti (third-person present tense dérgėja, third-person past tense dérgėjo)
References
edit- Derksen, Rick (2015) “dergėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 122