merkti

Lithuanian

Etymology 1

Cognate with Latvian mērkt (“to wet, soak”), apparently from a Proto-Indo-European *merk- (“to soak; to weaken”), and cognate with Latin marceō (“to wither, droop”) and Middle High German meren (“to dip bread into water or wine”).^[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

mer̃kti (third-person present tense mer̃kia, third-person past tense mer̃kė)

to wet, moisten, soak

Declension

Conjugation of *merkti*
		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	merkiù	merki̇̀	mer̃kia	mer̃kiame, mer̃kiam	mer̃kiate, mer̃kiat	mer̃kia
	past būtasis kartinis laikas	merkiaũ	merkei̇̃	mer̃kė	mer̃kėme, mer̃kėm	mer̃kėte, mer̃kėt	mer̃kė
	past frequentative būtasis dažninis laikas	mer̃kdavau	mer̃kdavai	mer̃kdavo	mer̃kdavome, mer̃kdavom	mer̃kdavote, mer̃kdavot	mer̃kdavo
	future būsimasis laikas	mer̃ksiu	mer̃ksi	mer̃ks	mer̃ksime, mer̃ksim	mer̃ksite, mer̃ksit	mer̃ks
subjunctive tariamoji nuosaka		mer̃kčiau	mer̃ktum	mer̃ktų	mer̃ktumėme, mer̃ktumėm, mer̃ktume	mer̃ktumėte, mer̃ktumėt	mer̃ktų
imperative liepiamoji nuosaka		—	mer̃k, mer̃ki	temer̃kia	mer̃kime, mer̃kim	mer̃kite, mer̃kit	temer̃kia

Participles of merkti

adjectival (dalyviai)
	active	passive
present	mer̃kiąs, mer̃kiantis	mer̃kiomas
past	mer̃kęs	mer̃ktas
past frequentative	mer̃kdavęs	—
future	mer̃ksiąs, mer̃ksiantis	mer̃ksimas
participle of necessity	—	mer̃ktinas

adverbial
special pusdalyvis		mer̃kdamas
half-participle padalyviai	present	mer̃kiant
	past	mer̃kus
	past frequentative	mer̃kdavus
	future	mer̃ksiant
manner of action būdinys		mer̃kte, merktinai

Related terms

markà (“place for retting flax”)

Etymology 2

Related to mirksė́ti (“to blink”).^[2]

Pronunciation

Verb

mérkti (third-person present tense mérkia, third-person past tense mérkė)

to close one's eyes

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

References

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “merkti I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 312
^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “merkti II”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 312

[1] Derksen, Rick (2015) “merkti I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 312

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015) “merkti II”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 312

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