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sargāt

Pronunciation: [sârɡāːt]

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

verb

  1. to protect, to guard (to act in such a way that something, some place, etc. becomes unavailable, inaccessible to undesirable or unauthorized people)
  2. to protect (to prevent something unwanted, undesirable from happening to someone, usually an important person)
  3. to protect, to defend (to prevent the enemy from attacking, spying, etc.)
  4. to protect, to guard (to prevent something or someone from being stolen, destroyed, attacked, etc.; also of animals)
  5. to guard, to watch over (to limit the freedom of action of someone, usually a prisoner)
  6. to protect, to shelter (to use something carefully, to prevent bad external influences on something)
  7. to protect, to keep, to guard (to make something, e.g., honor, tradition, relationships, be preserved)

Etymology

Probably the iterative form of an (unattested) verb *sargt or *sergt, from the same stem as sargs (“protector”): Proto-Baltic *serg-, *sarg-, from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“to watch over, to protect, to preserve”) with an extra -g. The present tense forms sargu and sargāju alternate in various dialects; the shorter form is older, the longer more recent. Cognates include Lithuanian sérgėti,…

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