trupėti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *trewp- (“to crumble, crush”), and cognate with Latvian trupet (“to rot, become soft, crumble”), Old Prussian trupis (“log”), and dialectal Russian трупить (trupitʹ, “to crush”). Further origin unclear, and possibly confined to Balto-Slavic; Ancient Greek τρῡπάω (trūpáō, “to bore, pierce (through)”) has been compared, but there are vowel accent mismatches between the Balto-Slavic and Greek forms, with the latter seeming to match trūnėti (“to rot, decay”) better.

Verb

trupė́ti (third-person present tense trùpa, third-person past tense trupė́jo)

1. to crumble, break into small pieces

Declension

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Related terms

• trupùtis (“a little bit”)