drebėti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *dʰrebʰ- (to fracture). Cognate with Latvian drebēt; also see Proto-Slavic *droba (crumb).[1]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [dʲɾʲɛˈbʲeːtʲɪ]

Verb

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drebė́ti (third-person present tense drẽba, third-person past tense drebė́jo)

  1. to quiver

Conjugation

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “drebėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 137