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kurti

Pronunciation: [ˈkʊrʲtʲɪ]

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

verb

  1. to kindle, light
  2. to build
  3. to establish, set up
  4. to create, make
  5. to run

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kēr-, *ker-, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷr̥- (“to do, make, build”), probably via an extension *kʷr̥H- in order to account for the acute tone in the Baltic forms. Cognates include Latvian kur̃t (“to light, kindle”) and Sanskrit कृणोति (kṛṇóti, “to injure, do, make”). The appurtenance of the "kindle, light" meanings to the root *kʷr̥- is uncertain. It is traditionally…

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