dengti

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *deng-. The original meaning of "dress, cover" is preferable to Mažiulis's suggestion of "bend" (cf.dangà) in view of Ukrainian одягти́ (odjahtý, “put on, wear”),[1] Old High German tungen (“oppress, manure”), Proto-Germanic *dungō (“manure, dung”). Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰengʰ-, *dʰn̥gʰ- (“cover, conceal”); see also dangà (“arc”)

IPA^(key): /ˈdʲɛŋk.tʲɪ/

deñgti (third-person present tense deñgia, third-person past tense deñgė)

1. cover (place or be over or upon)

   Tam̃sūs dẽbesys deñgia dañgų. - Dark clouds cover the sky.

   Jì válgomajame deñgė stãlą. - She laid out a spread on the dining room table.

2. clothe, dress

   Jų̃ žemė visùs dengė ir̃ maitinti. - Their land fed and clothed all of them.

3. defend, advocate vindicate
4. (sports) mark (focus defensive activities on a certain player)

• dengtis
• dengimas, dengimasis

• dangus, danga
• dingti

Connected to Latvian diêgt (“walk briskly”), Belarusian dialectal дзя́жыць (dzjážycʹ, “beat, torment; run quickly”).

déngti (third-person present tense déngia, third-person past tense déngė)

1. (colloquial) rush etc. (move, consume or beat etc., with haste or urgency)