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dirti

  1. second-person singular infinitive of dirsi
  2. Compound of dire and ti.

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dírāˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *der- (to split, flay).[1]

Cognate with Latvian dīrāt (to flay),[1] Polish drzeć (to tear; to flay[2]), Russian драть (dratʹ, to tear),[1] Gothic 𐌳𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (distairan)[1] and Ancient Greek δέρω (dérō).[1] See also dirvà (soil).

Verb

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dìrti (third-person present tense dìria, third-person past tense dýrė) [3]

  1. (transitive) to flay[4]
    kailį dirti - to flay the skin

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 135
  2. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “drzeć”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 100
  3. ^ “dirti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  4. ^ “dirti” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN