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dengti

dengti

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈdʲɛŋk.tʲɪ/

Verb

deñgti (third-person present tense deñgia, third-person past tense deñgė)

  1. cover (place or be over or upon)
    Tam̃sūs dẽbesys deñgia dañgų. - Dark clouds cover the sky.
    válgomajame deñgė stãlą. - She laid out a spread on the dining room table.
  2. clothe, dress
    Jų̃ žemė visùs dengė ir̃ maitinti. - Their land fed and clothed all of them.
  3. defend, advocate vindicate
  4. (sports) mark (focus defensive activities on a certain player)
Conjugation
Derived terms
  • dengtis
  • dengimas, dengimasis
Related terms

Etymology 2

Connected to Latvian diêgt (walk briskly), Belarusian dialectal дзя́жыць (dzjážycʹ, beat, torment; run quickly).

Verb

déngti (third-person present tense déngia, third-person past tense déngė)

  1. (colloquial) rush etc. (move, consume or beat etc., with haste or urgency)
Conjugation

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 27898 1, pages 121–122