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versti

“versti” is a Lithuanian word. Its 6 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to fell
  2. to turn over
  3. to pile up
  4. to turn to
  5. to reduce to
  6. to translate

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wert- (“to turn, rotate”). According to the LIV, the term derives from Proto-Indo-European *wértetor and was secondarily reshaped into a ye-present due to the term's transitivity. Cognate with Latvian vērst (“to turn over”).

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