sverti
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Faroese[edit]
Verb[edit]
sverti
Lithuanian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *swer- (“heavy, hanging”); cognate with Proto-Germanic *swēraz (“heavy; serious”).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
sver̃ti (third-person present tense svẽria, third-person past tense svė́rė)
- (transitive) to weigh (an object, etc.)
- to hang (something) on a pole to dry
- (intransitive) to weigh, to have weight
Conjugation[edit]
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Derived terms[edit]
- svìrtis (“lever”)
References[edit]
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “sver̃ti”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 618-9