varpas
“varpas” is a Lithuanian word. Its meaning in English:
noun
Etymology
Related to virpėti (“to tremble, quiver”), virpulys (“trembling”), as "something that trembles" > "(a struck) bell". There is a cluster of Baltic words hypothesized to be related such as verpti (“to spin”), varpyti (“to dig, make holes”), Latvian virpēt (“to twist with a spindle; to shake”), Latvian virpulis (“whirlpool”). See also perhaps Slovene vŕpati (“to turn, to grab, to ditch”), dialectal…
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