kristi

See also: Kristi

Latvian

kristi m

Cognate with Latvian krist (“fall”), and also related to Lithuanian krė̃sti (“to shake, jolt”), Latvian krèst (“to fall, drop, die”). Outside of Baltic, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kret- (“to shake suddenly”), and related to Old Norse hrata (“fall”), Proto-Germanic *hradaz (“quick, hasty”), Old Irish crothaim (“shake”).^[1]

kri̇̀sti (third-person present tense kriñta, third-person past tense kri̇̀to)^[2]

Conjugation of *kristi*
		1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person	1^st person	2^nd person	3^rd person
		singular vienaskaita			plural daugiskaita
		aš	tu	jis/ji	mes	jūs	jie/jos
indicative tiesioginė nuosaka	present esamasis laikas	krintù	krinti̇̀	kriñta	kriñtame, kriñtam	kriñtate, kriñtat	kriñta
	past būtasis kartinis laikas	kritaũ	kritai̇̃	kri̇̀to	kri̇̀tome, kri̇̀tom	kri̇̀tote, kri̇̀tot	kri̇̀to
	past frequentative būtasis dažninis laikas	kri̇̀sdavau	kri̇̀sdavai	kri̇̀sdavo	kri̇̀sdavome, kri̇̀sdavom	kri̇̀sdavote, kri̇̀sdavot	kri̇̀sdavo
	future būsimasis laikas	kri̇̀siu	kri̇̀si	kri̇̀s	kri̇̀sime, kri̇̀sim	kri̇̀site, kri̇̀sit	kri̇̀s
subjunctive tariamoji nuosaka		kri̇̀sčiau	kri̇̀stum, kri̇̀stumei	kri̇̀stų	kri̇̀stumėme, kri̇̀stumėm, kri̇̀stume	kri̇̀stumėte, kri̇̀stumėt	kri̇̀stų
imperative liepiamoji nuosaka		—	kri̇̀sk, kri̇̀ski	tekriñta, tekriñtie	kri̇̀skime, kri̇̀skim	kri̇̀skite, kri̇̀skit	tekriñta, tekriñtie

Participles of kristi

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “kristi”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 259
^ “kristi”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025