dilti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Cognate with Latvian dil̃t (to rub off, wear out, emaciate, diminish, become blunt)

Verb

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dìlti (third-person present tense dỹla, third-person past tense dìlo)

  1. to rub off, wear out, diminish, vanish
  2. to live in poverty, linger (colloquial)
  3. to become weak (dialectal)

References

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  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “dilti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130