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dengti

Pronunciation: /ˈdʲɛŋk.tʲɪ/

“dengti” is a Lithuanian word. Its 5 meanings in English:

verb

  1. cover (place or be over or upon)
  2. clothe, dress
  3. defend, advocate vindicate
  4. mark (focus defensive activities on a certain player)
  5. to rush, hurry, etc. (move, consume or beat etc., with haste or urgency)

Etymology

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

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