sverti

Faroese

Verb

sverti

  1. first-person singular present of sverta

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy, hanging”); cognate with Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy; serious”).[1]

Pronunciation

Verb

sver̃ti (third-person present tense svẽria, third-person past tense svė́rė)

  1. (transitive) to weigh (an object, etc.)
  2. to hang (something) on a pole to dry
  3. (intransitive) to weigh, to have weight

Conjugation

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Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “sver̃ti”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 618-9
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