brukti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbrʊkʲtʲɪ]

Verb

brùkti (third-person present tense brùka, third-person past tense brùko) [2]

  1. (transitive) to shove, thrust
    brùkti rankàs į̃ kišenès[2] - to shove the hands into the pockets
  2. (transitive) (to press to buy): to thrust, force
    brùkti prẽkę[2] - to force the goods
  3. (transitive) to drive
    brùkti árklius[2] - to drive the horses
  4. (transitive) (flax) to scutch
    linùs brùkti[2] - to scutch the flax

Conjugation

Synonyms

  • (to shove): kišti, sprausti, terpti
  • (to drive): grūsti, varyti
Derived terms

See also

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 65.
  2. “brukti” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  • “brukti” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
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