dilti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian dil̃t (“to rub off, wear out, emaciate, diminish, become blunt”)

Verb

dìlti (third-person present tense dỹla, third-person past tense dìlo)

  1. to rub off, wear out, diminish, vanish
  2. to live in poverty, linger (colloquial)
  3. to become weak (dialectal)

References
  • Derksen, Rick (2015), “dilti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130
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