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merkti

Lithuanian

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Etymology 1

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Cognate 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

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Verb

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mer̃kti (third-person present tense mer̃kia, third-person past tense mer̃kė)

  1. to wet, moisten, soak
Declension
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  • markà (“place for retting flax”)

Etymology 2

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Related to mirksė́ti (“to blink”).[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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mérkti (third-person present tense mérkia, third-person past tense mérkė)

  1. to close one's eyes
Declension
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References

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  1. ^ 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
  2. ^ 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
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