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degt

Pronunciation: [dekt]

“degt” is a Latvian word. Its 13 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to burn (to be consumed by fire)
  2. to burn
  3. to burn (to be heated, roasted, baked etc. in excess)
  4. to burn (to be flammable, to be capable of burning)
  5. to burn, to be on (to produce heat and/or light)
  6. to burn, to shine brightly, to produce light
  7. to burn (to feel an intense feeling of heat, or an intense irritation, intense pain; also metaphorically)
  8. to burn, to be hot (to have a fever)
  9. to heat up in humidity, in humid conditions
  10. to burn (to feel an emotion very strongly; to desire something very strongly)
  11. to burn (to happen intensely)
  12. to be urgent, to be in a hurry
  13. (of light sources) to light

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *degtéi, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰégʷʰeti (“to burn”). Regarding the different conjugation of transitive/intransitive, Carrasquer Vidal summarizes the situation as follows: "considering that transitives such as ja-presents make ē-preterits, while intransitives, such as n-infix verbs and sta-verbs, mostly make ā-preterits, a solution focusing on transitivity ~…

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