rauti

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *ruʔ-[1], from Proto-Indo-European *(H)ruH-[1]. Cognate with Latvian raut[1], Polish rwać (to tear (flowers etc.))[2] and ryć (to burrow)[1].

Pronunciation 1

Verb

ráuti (third-person present tense ráuna, third-person past tense róvė) [3]

  1. (transitive) to grub, to pull out (roots, stumps etc.)[4]
  2. (transitive, figuratively) to eradicate
    Synonym: skinti
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verbs
nouns derived from rauti
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Pronunciation 2

Participle

rautì m (past passive)

  1. (deprecated template usage) masculine plural nominative form of rautas.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 442. →ISBN
  2. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “rwać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 470
  3. ^ “rauti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  4. ^ “rauti” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN