degti

Latvian

Participle

degti

  1. nominative plural masculine form of degts

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *deg-tei[1]; compare Latvian degt (“burn, light”), Old Prussian dagis (“summer”), Proto-Slavic *žegti < *geg- (via assimilation). From Proto-Indo-European *dʰegʷʰ- (“to burn”); cognate with Avestan 𐬛𐬀𐬲𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌‎ (dažaiti), Sanskrit दहति (dáhati, “to burn, to consume”), Latin foveō (“warm, cherish”), Middle Irish daig (“fire, pain”), Ancient Greek τέφρα (téphra, “ashes”), Albanian djeg (“burn”), Tocharian A tsäk- (“burn up”). Compare also dagà (“heat of the sun”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈdʲɛk.tʲɪ/

Verb

dègti (third-person present tense dẽga, third-person past tense dẽgė)

  1. (intransitive) to burn
    Namas dega. - The house is on fire.
  2. (transitive) to burn
    degti degtuką - to burn a match

Conjugation

dalyviai of degti
active passive
present dẽgąs, dẽgantis dẽgamas
past dẽgęs dègtas
past frequentative dègdavęs —
future dègsiąs, dègsiantis dègsimas
participle of necessity — dègtinas
pusdalyvis of degti
active
special adverbial participle dègdamas
padalyviai of degti
active
present adverbial dẽgant
past adverbial dẽgus
past frequentative adverbial dègdavus
future adverbial dègsiant

Synonyms

Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • deglas m

References

  1. ↑ Kim, Ronald (forth.), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European‎, Berlin: de Gruyter
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