Latvian

Participle

degti

1. nominative plural masculine form of degts

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *deg-tei^[1]; compare Latvian degt ‎(“burn, light”), Old Prussian dagis ‎(“summer”), Proto-Slavic *žegti < *geg- (via assimilation). From Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- ‎(“to burn”); cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬲𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 ‎(dažaiti), Sanskrit दहति ‎(dáhati, “to burn, to consume”), Latin foveō ‎(“warm, cherish”), Middle Irish daig ‎(“fire, pain”), Ancient Greek τέφρα ‎(téphra, “ashes”), Albanian djeg ‎(“burn”), Tocharian A tsäk- ‎(“burn up”). Compare also dagà ‎(“heat of the sun”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʲɛk.tʲɪ/

Verb

dègti ‎(third-person present tense dẽga, third-person past tense dẽgė)

1. (intransitive) to burn

   Namas dega. - The house is on fire.

2. (transitive) to burn

   degti degtuką - to burn a match

Conjugation

Synonyms

• (transitive) kurti

Related terms

• (noun) deglas m

Derived terms

References

1. ↑ Kim, Ronald (forth.), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European, Berlin: de Gruyter