dėl

See also: del, Del, dél, -del, de l', Del., dēļ, and ␡

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Slavic *děľa (“because of”).[1] Cognate with Latvian dēļ.

Preposition

dėl

  1. for (because of)
    Avãrija įvỹko dėl rū̃ko.
    The accident happened because of the fog.

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “dėl”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 120
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