gailėti

Lithuanian

Etymology

Possibly related to gailùs (sharp, bitter, cold, lamentable, angry), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *gailas (sharp, bitter; angry).[1]

Verb

gailė́ti (third-person present tense gaĩlisi, third-person past tense gailė́josi)

  1. to regret

Conjugation

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 161
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