Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From the same word family as var̃gas (hardship, misery) and vargùs (hard, difficult); see the latter for more. Cognate with Latvian vārgt (to be ailing, pine away).[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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var̃gti (third-person present tense var̃gsta, third-person past tense var̃go)

  1. to live in poverty
  2. to suffer hardships, take pains, torment oneself

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “vargti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 489