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Where does “blęsti” come from?

blęsti (Lithuanian) comes from Proto-Balto-Slavic blend-, from Proto-Indo-European bʰlendʰ- — to blend, to mix up; to make cloudy, opaque;...

blęsti (Lithuanian): to sleep, stir flour into soup, talk nonsense,...

Definitions

  1. to sleep, stir flour into soup, talk nonsense,...

Ancestry of “blęsti”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Balto-Slavicblend-—
2Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰlendʰ-to blend, to mix up; to make cloudy, opaque;...
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