pulti

pultī

1. dative/ablative singular of puls

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-, a compound of *h₂epó (“off, away”) + *h₃elh₁- (“to fall”). Cognate with Latvian pult (“to fall (obsolete)”), Old Prussian aupallai (“finds”); outside of Baltic, compare Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”) (whence English fall), Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πόλλῡμῐ (ăpóllūmĭ, “to destroy, ruin”).^[1]

pùlti (third-person present tense púola, third-person past tense púolė)^[2]

1. (intransitive) to fall
2. (intransitive) to fall (about accent)

   Kir̃tis púola añt pìrmo žõdžio skiemeñs.^[2]

   The accent falls on the first syllable of the word.

3. (intransitive, figuratively) to be fallen
4. (intransitive, figuratively) to fall (temperature, price etc.)
5. (transitive) to attack, to assault (apply violent force to someone or something)^[3]
6. (intransitive, transitive) to attack (about sickness)

• (to fall): kri̇̀sti
• (to attack): ki̇̀bti

• (#2): tvirtaprãdė pri̇́egaidė
• (#3): gèsti (geñda, gẽdo), tvirkti

pulti̇̀ m (past passive)

1. nominative masculine plural of pùltas