girti

Verb

girti (weak)

1. first-person singular past indicative of girða
2. third-person singular past indicative of girða
3. first-person singular past subjunctive of girða
4. third-person singular past subjunctive of girða

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gírˀtei, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to welcome, greet, praise”).

Cognate with Latin grātus (“welcome”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”), Old Prussian girtwei (“to praise”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇā́ti, “to praise”).

Verb

gìrti (third-person present tense gìria, third-person past tense gýrė)

1. to praise

   Negirk dienos be vakaro. ― Don't praise the day without the evening.