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dzelt

Pronunciation: [dzɛ̂lt]

“dzelt” is a Latvian word. Its 7 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to sting (to stab with a stinger)
  2. to sting (to cause pain, to hurt, to harm)
  3. to sting (to cause pain, skin redness, or to hurt with a stinger or some needle-like growth)
  4. to sting (to cause a sore, burning sensation)
  5. to sting (to cause a feeling of irritation or of agitation)
  6. to sting (to cause unpleasant feelings with words or behavior, to offend)
  7. to sting (to express a negative attitude, to offend, to upset)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *gel-, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷel-, *gʷelH- (“to stab, to pierce; stabbing pain”), apparently a variant of *kel- (“to pierce, to stab”) and related to *kel- (“to hit, to chop”) (whence Latvian kalt (“to forge, to chisel”)) and *(s)kelH- (“to cut”) (whence Latvian šķelt (“to split”)). Cognates include Lithuanian gélti, Old Church Slavonic жела (žela), желꙗ (želja, “grief,…

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