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skrieti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Cognate with Latvian skriet (to go, run, fly), seemingly from a Proto-Indo-European *(s)krey- (to turn), and related to Proto-Slavic *krīdlò (wing),[1] as well as Proto-Balto-Slavic *kréiwas (crooked); see the latter for more.[2]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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skríeti (third-person present tense skríeja, third-person past tense skríejo)

  1. to rotate, circle
  2. to fly

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “409”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page skrieti
  2. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “skriẽti”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 567