OriginFrom 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”).
- to praise
“Negirk dienos be vakaro.” — Don't praise the day without the evening.
Formsgi̇̀rti(canonical) · gi̇̀ria(present, third-person) · gýrė(past, third-person) · giriù(error-unrecognized-form) · giri̇̀(error-unrecognized-form, second-person) · gi̇̀ria(error-unrecognized-form) · gi̇̀riame(error-unrecognized-form) · gi̇̀riam(error-unrecognized-form) · gi̇̀riate(error-unrecognized-form, plural, second-person) · gi̇̀riat(error-unrecognized-form, plural, second-person) · gi̇̀ria(error-unrecognized-form, plural, third-person) · gýriau(error-unrecognized-form) · gýrei(error-unrecognized-form, second-person) · gýrė(error-unrecognized-form) · gýrėme(error-unrecognized-form) · gi̇̀riom(error-unrecognized-form) · gýrėte(error-unrecognized-form, plural, second-person) · gi̇̀riot(error-unrecognized-form, plural, second-person) · gýrė(error-unrecognized-form, plural, third-person) · gi̇̀rdavau(error-unrecognized-form)