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pulti

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

verb

  1. to fall
  2. to fall (about accent)
  3. to be fallen
  4. to fall (temperature, price etc.)
  5. to attack, to assault (apply violent force to someone or something)
  6. to attack (about sickness)

Etymology

Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂peh₃lH-, a compound of *h₂epó (“off, away”) + *h₃elh₁- (“to fall”). Cognate with Latvian pult (“to fall (obsolete)”), Old Prussian aupallai (“finds”); outside of Baltic, compare Proto-Germanic *fallaną (“to fall”) (whence English fall), Ancient Greek ᾰ̓πόλλῡμῐ (ăpóllūmĭ, “to destroy, ruin”).

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