dilti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian dil̃t (“to rub off, wear out, emaciate, diminish, become blunt”)

Verb

dìlti (third-person present tense dỹla, third-person past tense dìlo)

1. to rub off, wear out, diminish, vanish
2. to live in poverty, linger (colloquial)
3. to become weak (dialectal)

References

• Derksen, Rick (2015) “dilti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 130