žydėti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ǵeyH-dʰ-, from *ǵeyH- (“to break open, germinate”); cognate with Proto-Germanic *kīnaną (“to split open, sprout”). See also žíedėti (“to become hard and moldy”), žíedas (“blossom, ring”).[1]

Verb

žydė́ti (third-person present tense žýdi, third-person past tense žydė́jo)

  1. to flower, bloom

Conjugation

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References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “žydėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 518

Further reading
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