berti

berti

1. second-person singular infinitive of bersi

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰer- (“to carry”). Akin to Latvian bḕrt, Old High German beran (“carry”), Gothic 𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌰𐌽 (bairan), Latin ferre, Ancient Greek φέρειν (phérein), Russian беременная (beremennaja, “pregnant”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈbʲæːɾʲtʲɪ]

ber̃ti (third-person present tense bẽria, third-person past tense bė̃rė)

1. strew; scatter
2. shed (tears)

• Derksen, Rick (2015), “berti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 88