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

	INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme)				IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme)
		Present (tagadne)	Past (pagātne)	Future (nākotne)
1st pers. sg.	es	duru	dūru	duršu	—
2nd pers. sg.	tu	dur	dūri	dursi	dur
3rd pers. sg.	viņš, viņa	dur	dūra	durs	lai dur
1st pers. pl.	mēs	duram	dūrām	dursim	dursim
2nd pers. pl.	jūs	durat	dūrāt	dursiet, dursit	duriet
3rd pers. 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

conjugation of durt