stingti

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Apparently from the zero-grade of sténgti (“to make an effort”);[1] however, the semantic connection is obscure.[2] Cognate with Latvian stiñgt (“to stiffen, congeal”).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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stìngti (third-person present tense stìngsta, third-person past tense stìngo)

  1. to harden, stiffen
  2. to freeze, congeal

Conjugation

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References

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  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “sténgti”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 601
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “stingti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 428
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