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kalti

kalti

Lithuanian

Pronunciation

  • (verb) IPA(key): /ˈkalʲtʲɪ/

Verb

kálti (third-person present tense kãla, third-person past tense kãlė) [2]

  1. to hammer, to strike
  2. to forge, to hammer
    Kalk geležį, kol karšta.[3]
    Strike while the iron is hot.
  3. to mint, to strike
  4. (figuratively) to cram; to swot (UK)
Conjugation
Synonyms
Related terms
  • (noun) kuolas m
Derived terms
See also

Participle

kalti m (past passive participle)

  1. masculine plural nominative form of kaltas.

Etymology 2

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɐlʲˈtʲɪ]

Adjective

kaltì m

  1. positive masculine plural nominative form of kaltas.
  2. positive masculine plural vocative form of kaltas.

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 15504 6, page 230
  2. “kalti” in Juozas Balčikonis [et al.] (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  3. geležis” in Balčikonis, op. cit..
  • “kalti” in Victoria Martsinkyavitshute (2012), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian, Seventh printing. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 978-0-7818-0151-5

Old High German

Etymology

kalt (cold) +

Noun

kaltī f

  1. coldness

Descendants