Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Inherited from Proto-Indo-European *werźtéi (to bind, to strangle), from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ-. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *verzti, *vьrzàti (to tie).

Verb

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ver̃žti (third-person present tense ver̃žia, third-person past tense ver̃žė)

  1. (transitive) to tighten, to squeeze
  2. (transitive) to string, to cord, to twine

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  • veržti”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • veržti”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “veržti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 498