virti

virti (weak)

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

Cognate with Latvian vir̂t (“to boil”). From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wirˀ-, from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to burn”). Compare Proto-Slavic *vьrěti (“to boil”). However, Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer- (“water, rain, flow”); see the Latin river Avara.

• IPA^(key): [ˈvʲɪrʲ tʲɪ]

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vìrti (third-person present tense vérda, third-person past tense vìrė)

1. (transitive) to boil, seethe

   kas verda kiaušinius? — who is boiling the eggs?

2. (transitive) to cook, to make (food)

   aš noriu virti košę — I want to cook porridge

   mano mama verda vakarienę — my mum is making dinner

• užvirinti

• Derksen, Rick (2015), “virti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 506–507
• Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), Bern, München: Francke Verlag