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stengti

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *sténgtei, from Proto-Indo-European *stengʷ-ye-ti, from *stengʷ- (“to push, thrust”), whence Latin stinguō (“to put out”) and English stink.[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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sténgti (third-person present tense sténgia, third-person past tense sténgė)

  1. to be able, make an effort
  2. to oppose

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “sténgtis”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 601
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “stengti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 427-8
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