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lidot

Pronunciation: [liduôt]

“lidot” is a Latvian word. Its 11 meanings in English:

verb

  1. to fly (to move in the air with the help of wings)
  2. to fly (to move in the air)
  3. to fly (to be thrown so as move quickly through the air)
  4. to fly, to run (to move quickly)
  5. to fly (to be carried by the air)
  6. to fly, to spread
  7. to fly, to spread quickly
  8. to fly, to turn to something far away
  9. to fly, to run
  10. to fly, to pass quickly
  11. to behave very kindly to someone in order to win his or her favor

Etymology

Originally the iterative form of *list, from Proto-Baltic *lid-ti, from the same stem as laist (“to let, to allow”): Proto-Indo-European *leyd-, *līd-, *lid- (“to let go, to allow”). The synonyms lidot and laisties are therefore reflexes of the same original stem. The original meaning was probably “to let go,” from which “to fly.” In Indo-European languages, it is common that the notion “to fly”…

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