atverti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *otwerʔ- Cognate with Latvian atvẽrt (“to open”), Old Prussian etwerreis (“open!”), Proto-Slavic *ot(ъ)verti (“to open”).

Verb

atvérti (third-person present tense àtveria, third-person past tense atvė́rė)

  1. to open

References
  • Derksen, Rick (2015), “atverti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 67
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