verslas

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Etymology

According to Fraenkel, from the same root as versti (“to cause to fall; to convert”), virsti, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wert-.

Noun

ver̃slas m (plural ver̃slai) stress pattern 2

1. business (commercial or professional activity performed for profit)

Declension

Declension of ver̃slas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	ver̃slas	ver̃slai
genitive (kilmininkas)	ver̃slo	ver̃slų
dative (naudininkas)	ver̃slui	ver̃slams
accusative (galininkas)	ver̃slą	verslùs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	verslù	ver̃slais
locative (vietininkas)	verslè	ver̃sluose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	ver̃sle	ver̃slai

Further reading

• “verslas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
• Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965), “ver̃slas”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume II, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 1227