durt

See also: dúrt and dürt

English

Noun

durt (uncountable)

1. Obsolete form of dirt.
   • 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 33:

     In filthy durt, and left so in the loathely soyle.

   • c. 1616–1619 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Loyal Subiect”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act II, scene i, page 31, column 1:

     [C]an this durt draw us / To ſuch a ſtupid tameneſſe, that our ſervice / Neglected, and look'd lamely on, and skewd at / With a few honourable words, and this, is righted?

Anagrams

• RTU'd, turd

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *durˀtei (“to stab, prick”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰérh₃-ti.

Pronunciation

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Verb

dur̃t (transitive or intransitive, 1st conjugation, present duru, dur, dur, past dūru)

1. to stab
2. to thrust
3. to prick
4. to jab

Conjugation

Conjugation of durt (1st)

	indicative (īstenības izteiksme)					imperative (pavēles izteiksme)
		present (tagadne)	past (pagātne)		future (nākotne)
1st person sg	es	duru	dūru		duršu	—
2nd person sg	tu	dur	dūri		dursi	dur
3rd person sg	viņš, viņa	dur	dūra		durs	lai dur
1st person pl	mēs	duram	dūrām		dursim	dursim
2nd person pl	jūs	durat	dūrāt		dursiet, dursit	duriet
3rd person pl	viņi, viņas	dur	dūra		durs	lai dur
renarrative (atstāstījuma izteiksme)				participles (divdabji)
present	durot			present active 1 (adj.)		durošs
past	esot dūris			present active 2 (adv.)		durdams
future	duršot			present active 3 (adv.)		durot
imperative	lai durot			present active 4 (obj.)		duram
conditional (vēlējuma izteiksme)				past active		dūris
present	durtu			present passive		durams
past	būtu dūris			past passive		durts
debitive (vajadzības izteiksme)				nominal forms
indicative	(būt) jādur			infinitive (nenoteiksme)		durt
conjunctive 1	esot jādur			negative infinitive		nedurt
conjunctive 2	jādurot			verbal noun		duršana