FromProto-Balto-Slavic*gerˀtei(“devour, lap up”), fromProto-Indo-European*gʷerh₃-(“to devour”);[1] compareLatviandzer̂t(“drink”),Proto-Slavic*žèrti(“to devour, glut”) (Old Church Slavonicпожрѣти, пожьрѫ(požrěti, požĭrǫ,“swallow, devour”),Polishżreć(“eat greedily”),Russiandemoticнажраться(nažratʹsja,“to eat a lot; get drunk”)),Sanskritगिरति(giráti,“devour”),Ancient Greekβιβρώσκω(bibrṓskō,“eat up”),Latinvorō(“devour, swallow”).
The present tense stem of the Slavic words <*gir- comes from thezero-grade of the root; comparegirti(“get drunk”),girtas(“drunk”). See alsogurklỹs(“craw, throat”) andgerklė(“throat”).
gérti (third-person present tensegẽria,third-person past tensegė́rė)
| singularvienaskaita | pluraldaugiskaita | |||||||
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| 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | 1st person | 2nd person | 3rd person | |||
| aš | tu | jis/ji | mes | jūs | jie/jos | |||
| indicative | present | geriù | geri̇̀ | gẽria | gẽriame, gẽriam | gẽriate, gẽriat | gẽria | |
| past | gė́riau | gė́rei | gė́rė | gė́rėme, gẽriom | gė́rėte, gẽriot | gė́rė | ||
| past frequentative | gérdavau | gérdavai | gérdavo | gérdavome, gérdavom | gérdavote, gérdavot | gérdavo | ||
| future | gérsiu | gérsi | gérs | gérsime, gérsim | gérsite, gérsit | gérs | ||
| subjunctive | gérčiau | gértum | gértų | gértumėme, gértumėm, gértume | gértumėte, gértumėt | gértų | ||
| imperative | — | gérk, gérki | tegẽria | gérkime, gérkim | gérkite, gérkit | tegẽria | ||
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