Italian

Verb

dirti

1. second-person singular infinitive of dirsi
2. Compound of dire and ti.

Lithuanian

Etymology

• From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dir-^[1]. Cognate with Latvian dīrāt ‎(“to flay”)^[1], Polish drzeć ‎(“to tear; to flay^[2]”), Russian драть ‎(dratʹ, “to tear”)^[1], Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 ‎(distairan)^[1] and Ancient Greek δέρω ‎(dérō)^[1]. See also dirvà ‎(“soil”).

Verb

dìrti ‎(third-person present tense dìria, third-person past tense dýrė) ^[3]

1. (transitive) to flay^[4]

   kailį dirti - to flay the skin

Conjugation

Synonyms

• lupti, plėšti

Derived terms

(Nouns)

• (verbal nouns) dyrìmas m
• dyrìkas m / dyrìkė f

(Verb)

• nudirti

References

1. 1 2 3 4 5 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 15504 6, page 135
2. ↑ Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “drzeć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, published 1985, page 100
3. ↑ “dirti” in Juozas Balčikonis [et al.] (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
4. ↑ “dirti” in Victoria Martsinkyavitshute (2012), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian, Seventh printing. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 978-0-7818-0151-5