pulti

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Latin[edit]

Noun[edit]

pultī

  1. dative/ablative singular of puls

Lithuanian[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-, a compound of *h₂epo (off, away) + *h₃elh₁- (to fall). Cognate with Proto-Germanic *fallaną (English fall).

Verb[edit]

pùlti (third-person present tense púola, third-person past tense púolė) [1]

  1. (intransitive) to fall
  2. (intransitive) to fall (about accent)
    Kir̃tis púola añt pìrmo žõdžio skiemeñs.[1]
    The accent falls on the first syllable of the word.
  3. (intransitive, figuratively) to be fallen
  4. (intransitive, figuratively) to fall (temperature, price etc.)
  5. (transitive) to attack, to assault (apply violent force to someone or something)[2]
  6. (intransitive, transitive) to attack (about sickness)

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Participle[edit]

pultì m (past passive)

  1. nominative masculine plural of pultas

References[edit]

  1. 1.0 1.1 “pulti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  2. ^ “pulti” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN