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dumti

dumti

Lithuanian

Verb

dùmti (third-person present tense dùmia, third-person past tense dū́mė) [3]

  1. (intransitive, transitive) to blow
  2. (transitive) to blow with bellows
    dùmples dùmti - to blow bellows
  3. (intransitive) to breathe heavily
  4. (intransitive) to smoke; to puff
    Užsìdegė pýpkę ir̃ dùmia.[3]
    He / she / they lighted a pipe and is / are smoking.
  5. (intransitive) to rush, to tear along[4]

Conjugation

Synonyms

Derived terms

  • (verbal noun) dūmìmas m

Idioms

  • akis dumti

Participle

dumtì m (past passive)

  1. masculine plural nominative form of dumtas.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 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 114-115
  2. 1 2 Brückner, Aleksander (1927), dąć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, published 1985, page 86
  3. 1 2 “dumti” in Juozas Balčikonis [et al.] (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  4. “dumti” in Victoria Martsinkyavitshute (2012), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian, Seventh printing. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 978-0-7818-0151-5