ardyti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *or-ei/i-, Proto-Indo-European *Hor-eye- Cognate with Latvian ā̀rdît (“to destroy, scatter”), Proto-Slavic *oriti (“to tempt”).

Verb

ardýti (third-person present tense ar̃do, third-person past tense ar̃dė)

  1. to pull down, destroy

References
  • Derksen, Rick (2015), “ardyti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 60
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