merkti
Lithuanian
editEtymology 1
editCognate with Latvian mērkt (“to wet, soak”), apparently from a Proto-Indo-European *merk- (“to soak; to weaken”), and cognate with Latin marceō (“to wither, droop”) and Middle High German meren (“to dip bread into water or wine”).[1]
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmer̃kti (third-person present tense mer̃kia, third-person past tense mer̃kė)
Declension
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Related terms
edit- markà (“place for retting flax”)
Etymology 2
editRelated to mirksė́ti (“to blink”).[2]
Pronunciation
editVerb
editmérkti (third-person present tense mérkia, third-person past tense mérkė)
Declension
editThis entry needs an inflection-table template.
References
edit- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “merkti I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 312
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “merkti II”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 312