dergėti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg-. Cognate with Latvian der̂dzêtiês (to quarrel, fight), Old Prussian dergē (hate) 3pl., Middle High German terken, derken (to make dark, soil, defile).

Verb

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dérgėti (third-person present tense dérgėja, third-person past tense dérgėjo)

  1. to spoil, waste, scorn, scold (dialectal, Old Lithuanian)

References

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  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “dergėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 122