blęsti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *blend-. Cognate with Latvian bliêzt, Proto-Slavic *blęsti

Verb

blę̃sti (third-person present tense bleñdžia, third-person past tense bleñdė)

  1. to sleep, stir flour into soup, talk nonsense, become cloudy

References
  • Derksen, Rick (2015), “blęsti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 93-94
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