dergėti

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰerg-. Cognate with Latvian der̂dzêtiês (“to quarrel, fight”), Old Prussian dergē (“hate”) 3pl., Middle High German terken, derken (“to make dark, soil, defile”).

Verb

dérgėti (third-person present tense dérgėja, third-person past tense dérgėjo)

1. to spoil, waste, scorn, scold (dialectal, Old Lithuanian)

References

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “dergėti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 122