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griūti

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Along with griáuti (“to destroy, demolish”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰrewH- (“to rush in, attack”). Cognate with Latvian grût (“to collapse, rush”), Latin ingruō (“to attack”), Ancient Greek χράω (khráō, “to attack, inflict”).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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griū́ti (third-person present tense griū̃va, third-person past tense griùvo)

  1. to fall down, collapse, crumble
  2. to flock

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “griū́ti”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 203-4
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “griūti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 189
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