varpas

Lithuanian

Etymology 1

Related to virpėti (“to tremble, quiver”), virpulys (“trembling”). There are 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”). Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to twist, turn”), shared with Latin verber, Proto-Germanic *warpą, Ancient Greek ῥάπτω (rháptō), dial. Slovene vŕpati (“to turn, to grab, to ditch”), dial. Russian верпеть (verpetʹ, “to spring”), Bulgarian върпина (vǎrpina, “pond, whirlpool”).

Noun

var̃pas m stress pattern 4

  1. bell
Declension

Noun

várpas

  1. accusative plural of varpa
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