Verbs

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abgen- v. “to foresee, expect”
achar- v. “to avenge, do back, react, requite”
adaba- v. “to build, erect, establish”
adbanna- v. “to refill”
adbannad(a)- v. “to refill”
adbed- v. “to rephrase”
adertha- v. “to reunite”
adlanna- v. “to slope, slant”
adnartha- v. “to rekindle, reignite”
aeda- v. “to revere, worship”
aetha- v. (intr.) “to narrow, (besiege)”
aethad(a)- v. (trans.) “to (make something) narrow”
agla- v. “to shine out, flash”
agreitha- v. “to despise, contemn”
amartha- v. “to define, decree, destine”
ammatha- v. “to maul”
ammuia- v. “to work (hard) for, earn”
angab- v. “assail, (lit.) towards-leap”
anglenna- v. “to approach”
aníra- v. “to desire, *long for”
anna- v. “to give, †add to”
anna- v. “to thank”
annor- v. “attack, assault, (lit.) towards-run”
apha- v. “to touch”
aphad- v. “to follow”
atha- v. “will (future)”
ava- v. “will not, do not”
avautha- v. “to ravish, seize (forcibly)”
awartha- v. “to forsake”

bad- v. “to tread”
badh- [mb-] v. “to judge”
bal- v. “*to have power”
balla- v. “to matter; to be of significance, worth, moment”
banga- [mb-] v. “to trade, *sell”
banna- [mb-] v. “to imprison”
bar- [mb-] v. “to live, dwell, stay”
bardha- v. “to rule, reign”
barna- [mb-] v. “to till (land), *cultivate; (orig.) to dwell in (a land)”
bartha- [mb-] v. “to doom”
basta- [mb-] v. “to bake”
batha- v. “to trample”
bauda†- v. “to ban, prohibit, refuse” see boda-
baura- [mb-] v. “to need, require”
baugla- [mb-] v. “to oppress”
beleitha- [mb-] v. “to extol, magnify”
beltha- v. “to open out (transitive), expand, unroll, set sail”
beria- v. “to protect”
bertha- v. “to dare”
besta- v. “to wed, marry”
bída- v. “to compare, liken”
bilebra- v. “to equal”
bileutha- v. “to make equal, equalize”
biltha- v. “to resemble, seem like; to seem likely, be probable”
blab- v. “to flap, beat (wings etc.)”
boe [mb-] v. “must (impersonal), (lit.) *[it] needs”
boda- v. “to ban, prohibit, refuse, forbid”
baltha- v. “to excite, rouse, stir up, agitate”
balthol v. “exciting; excitable”
braetha- v. “to wrap, swathe”
branna- v. “to scorch”
brasta- v. “to tower up, loom”
brath- v. “to cook”
breitha- v. “to break out suddenly”
brenia- v. “to endure”
brona- v. “to last, survive”
buia- v. “to serve, hold allegiance to”

caeda- v. “to lie; to lay (down)”
caetha- v. “to make to do or be, cause, compel, induce, bring about”
cal- v. “to shine”
camma- v. “to make fit, suit, accommodate, adapt”
can- v. “to cry out, shout, call”
canga- v. “to tangle; *to go wrong”
car- v. “to do, make”
cab- v. “to leap, [G.] jump”
cauda- v. “to get flavour of, perceive, notice; ⚠️to taste (of the taster or person)”
cav- v. “to receive, *accept”
caw- v. “to taste”
ceiria- v. “to cause, bring about”
celia- v. “to illuminate, light up; to illustrate”
cen- v. “to see, perceive, look”
cesta- v. “to seek, search for, look for”
ceth- v. “to examine, search, interrogate”
cethia- v. “to cause interest, to interest (oneself)”
cil- v. “to choose, select”
col- v. “to bear, carry, wear”
coltha- v. “to bear up; to weigh, balance it on scales; to be worth, value or be equivalent to; ⚠️to endure”
cor- v. “to turn sour, curdle, congeal; to make cheese”
cotha- v. “to startle”
cov- v. “to bow”
cova- v. “to come together, meet; to gather, assemble”
covad(a)- v. “to bring together, make meet”
covra- v. “to empty”
cranna- v. “to accomplish, finish, complete, [G.] achieve”
crista- v. “to slash, cut, slice”
critha- v. “to reap”
cuia- v. “to live”
cuida- v. “to bring to life, enliven, energize”
cuina- v. “to be alive”
cútha- v. “to deceive, lie”
cýra- v. “to renew”

dag- [nd-] v. “to slay, [ᴱN.] kill”
dandol- [nd-] v. “to return, come back”
dangar- [nd-] v. “to undo”
danna- v. “to fall”
dar- v. “[N.] to stop, halt”
dev- [nd-] v. “to try, *seek opportunity, experiment”
dew- v. “to fail, miss”
dha v. “there is”
díhena- v. “*to forgive”
drega- v. “to flee”
dadhra- [nd-] v. “to face, oppose, stand in way; to resist, thwart”
dambed- [nd-] v. “to answer”
dammen- [nd-] v. “to return, go back”
dananna- [nd-] v. “to give back, return [something]”
dannod- v. “to untie, undo, unloose”
dav-¹ v. “to allow, yield, permit”
dod- v. “to drop, ⚠️fall down”
dov- v. “to lie heavy”
drab- v. “to labour, work; (impersonal) to irk, annoy”
drautha- v. “to weary, tire out”
drinna- v. “to turn, twist”
dúda- [nd-] v. “to lower [something]”
duia- [nd-] v. “to descend, sink, set [of sun]”
dagra- [nd-] v. “to battle”
damma- [nd-] v. “to hammer”
dartha- v. “to wait, stay, remain, last, endure”
delia- v. “to conceal”
dilia- v. “to stop (up)”
doltha- v. “to conceal”
dortha- [nd-] v. “to dwell, stay, [G.] settle”
drava- v. “to hew”
dringa- v. “to beat”

echad- v. “to form, make, shape, cut out, [N.] fashion; [S.] (lit.) to shape out”
edra- v. “to open (out)”
egleria- v. “to glorify”
eitha-¹ v. “to prick with a sharp point, stab; to treat with scorn, insult”
elia- v. “to cause to prosper, bless (a work), help one”
en- v. “*to name”
ephed- v. “to say out”
ephola- v. “?to remember”
ertha- v. “to unite”
esta- v. “to call, *name”
estola- v. “to encamp, *erect tents”
echuia- v. “to awaken, wake up (intr.)”
echuida- v. “to wake up (trans.), waken, rouse”
echuiru- v. “to come to life”
edanna- v. “to publish, (lit.) out-give”
edledhia- v. “to go into exile”
eithela- v. “to spring, well forth, *issue forth”
elva- v. “to marvel at, admire”
emma- v. “to paint, draw (something)”
emmas v. “painting, drawing”
enia- v. “to be born, be generated, result”
enweria- v. “to revere”
esgia- v. “to smoke (intr.)”
ethia- v. “to ease, assist”
ethiria- v. “to flow out”
ethog- v. “to lead out, *bring out”
etholtha- v. “to extract, make come out”
edonna- v. “to beget”
ercha- v. “to prick”
eria- v. “to rise”

fanha- v. “to veil, cloak” see fanna-
fanna- v. “to veil, cloak”
feria- v. “to make ready (promptly)”
fir- v. “to fade, *die”
fartha- v. “to sate, satisfy”
faw- v. “to puff, blow, pant”
fel- v. “to feel (a sensation or emotion)”
felechia- v. “to splash”
feleitha- "to excavate, tunnel, mine" (FELEG+ta) - @Vyacheslav Stepanov
fesga- v. “to itch, irritate”
finna- v. “to trick, deceive, cheat, take in”
faltha- v. “to foam”
fara- v. “to hunt”
feira- v. “to suffice”
fuia- v. “to feel disgust at, abhor”

gal- [ng-] v. “to shine clear, [G.] shine golden as the Sun”
gala- v. “to grow”
genedia- v. “to reckon”
geria- v. “to ponder”
gir- v. “to shudder”
gladh- v. “to laugh [at a joke], *guffaw”
gleina- v. “to bound, enclose, limit”
glenna- v. “*to travel”
glintha- v. “to glance (at)”
gohena- v. “*to forgive”
gor-² v. “to warn, urge”
groga- v. “to feel terror”
gruitha- v. “to terrify”
gwae- v. “to go, depart”
gwathra- v. “to overshadow, dim, veil, obscure”
gweth- v. “*to report”
gaeda- v. “to astound, make aghast (& surprise, shock)”
galtha- v. “to be glad”
ganna- v. “to gain, profit, increase; to be profitable, bring in revenue”
gartha- v. “to defend, ⚠️keep”
gauda- v. “to invent, originate, devise”
ged- [ñg-] v. “to get, catch, obtain, take”
gelia- [ng-] v. “to learn”
gella- v. “to rejoice, delight”
gil- [ng-] v. “to gleam, shine pale and silver (as of the moon [or stars])”
glanna- v. “to cleanse, purify, purge, *to clear, make clear”
glasta-¹ v. “to joke”
glasta-² v. “to make happy”
glosta- v. “to snow”
goianna- v. “to join with, add to”
goltha- [ng-] v. “to teach, educate, tutor, (lit.) make knowledgable”
gratha- v. “to rub, scratch, fray”
gresta- v. “to aid, help, succour, support”
gwel- v. “to boil, bubble”
gweltha- v. “to squeeze, press”
gwil- v. “to fly, ⚠️sail, float”
gwiltha- v. “to air, expose to air”
gwilwa- v. “to flutter, flit”
gwir- v. “to weave”
gwista- v. “to change, alter, vary”
gýda- v. “to impregnate, make pregant”
gythra- v. “to germinate, be conceived”
gad- v. “to catch”
gann(ad)a- [ng-] v. “to play a harp”
gar- v. “to hold, have, *possess”
gaw- [ng-] v. “to howl”
glavra- v. “to babble”
gling- v. “to hang, dangle”
glir- v. “to sing, recite poem”
gonathra- v. “to entangle, enmesh”
gonod- v. “to count (up)”
gosta- v. “to fear exceedingly”
gwaeda- v. “to enfold”
gwanna- v. “to die, depart”
gwatha- v. “to soil, stain”
gwedh- v. “to bind”
gweria- v. “to betray”
gwesta- v. “to swear”
gwesta- "to witness" (WETH+ta) - @Parmandil
gwar- (v.) “yield, give way, surrender” ⪤ ᴺQ. var-.

hadhma- v. “to seat” see hadhwa-
hadhwa- v. “to seat”
heb- v. “to keep”
hol- v. “to close, shut”
hadh- v. “to sit”
haeda- v. “to remove, (lit.) make distant”
haena- v. “to leave, depart, (lit.) be(come) distant”
haudha- v. “to lay in store; to hoard, save, record; to bury”
hav- v. “to pray”
haw- v. “to lie”
hebia- v. “to delay, retain, keep (temporarily)”
hel- v. “to freeze”
henna- v. “to read”
hich- v. “to vomit”
hída- v. “to (come to) pass, happen”
hinia- v. “to stick to, adhere, cleave to, abide by”
hir- v. “to find, *light on, chance on”
hoda- v. “to lay, stretch out, lay flat on ground”
hora- v. “to await, expect”
hosta- v. “to gather, collect”
húda- v. “to curse”
huia- v. “to urge on”
hwegra- v. “to sweep”
hwinia- v. “to twirl, whirl, eddy”
hab- v. “to clothe”
had- v. “to hurl, *fling; [G.] throw at, ⚠️aim at”
hal- v. “to lift”
haltha- v. “to screen”
hamma- v. “to clothe, *put on clothes, get dressed”
harna- v. “to wound”
hartha- v. “to hope”
hasta- v. “to hack through, *cleave”
heltha- v. “to strip, *flay, peel skin; *to despoil, make bare”
henia- v. “to understand”
heria- v. “to begin suddenly and vigorously”
hortha- v. “to urge on, speed”

I/J

iaeda- v. “to mock, deride, make fun of, laugh at”
ialtha- v. “to yoke, ⚠️join”
ianna- v. “to join, connect”
av- v. “to produce, yield, bear fruit”
iesta-¹ v. “to begin”
iesta-² v. “to wish”
ialla- v. “to call”
ista- v. “to have knowledge, [G.] know, ⚠️be aware, perceive, feel”
iuitha- v. “to employ”

laba- v. “to hop”
lach- "to kick" (LAKH) - @Parmandil
lacha- v. “to flame”
lala- v. “to laugh”
lamma- v. “to echo”
lasta- v. “to listen, give ear”
leithia- v. “to release, [N.] set free”
leutha- v. “to pick (up/out)”
linna- v. “to sing, chant”
lad- v. “to stretch, extend (in length)”
laeda- v. “to refresh, revive”
laltha- v. “to amuse, make laugh”
lathr(ad)a- v. “to listen in, eavesdrop”
lav- v. “to lick”
lavra- v. “to lap (of animals), suck up”
leb- v. “to pick, pluck, take or feel or touch with fingers, cull”
ledia- v. “to open; unlock (transitive)”
lemma- v. “to beckon, crook the finger”
lenia- v. “to sound, make a noise”
lhab- v. “to sup, *sip, ⚠️suck, lap up”
lhassa- v. “to hear”
lhid- v. “to sort out, sift, sieve, discriminate”
lhig- v. “to creep, sneak, do or go by stealth”
lhossa- v. “to whisper, rustle”
lhýda- v. “to make sick, sicken”
liltha- v. “to dance”
limmid(a)- v. “to moisten”
lista- v. “to show grace, kindness”
lítha- v. “to let slip, lose, mislay; (intr.) to be lost; forget”
liv- v. “to drip”
lob- v. “to gallop, *lope, ⚠️[G.] run”
loda- v. “to float”
loetha- v. “to curl, bend, wind, twine, ⚠️tie knot, tangle”
log- v. “to haul, drag”
logra- v. “to stoop, bow, cower; to submit”
lor- v. “to sleep, slumber, ⚠️dream”
lortha- v. “to put to sleep, send to sleep”
losta-¹ v. “to bloom, blossom”
lúda- v. “to pass (of time); to come to pass, occur, *happen”
lútha- v. “to enchant”
ledh- v. “to go, *travel, journey”
luithia- v. “to quench”

mad- v. “to eat”
maetha- v. “to handle, wield, use, manage, treat, deal with”
mel- v. “to love”
men- v. “to go”
minna- v. “to go in, enter”
míria- v. “to sparkle like jewels”
mab- v. “to seize, *grasp, grab; ⚠️to take away by force”
mabed- v. “to ask [a question]”
maegra- v. “to sharpen”
maga- v. “to forge metal”
masta- v. “to [put to] feed, graze”
mav- v. “to like”
medhia- v. “to knead, soften”
media- v. “to feed”
meitha- v. “to aim at, *have as a goal; ⚠️to intend, mean”
menna- v. “to send, (lit.) make go”
mer- v. “to hope, wish, desire, want”
mertha- v. “to gladden, make happy”
mib- v. “to kiss”
mirtha- v. “to value, esteem, treasure, cherish”
mítha- v. “to kiss”
mol- v. “to grind, pulverize”
muia- v. “to whine, moan, whimper, caw, meow”
maetha- v. “to fight”
matha- v. “to stroke, feel, handle”
mista- v. “to stray about”
muda- v. “to labour, toil, *work”

na- v. “to be”
nalla- v. “to cry”
natha- v. “to bring help to, save, rescue”
nedia- v. “to count”
neitha- v. “to wrong, deprive”
nidh- v. “to will”
nídha- v. “to be determined to”
nod- v. “to count”
nor- v. “to run (or leap) of animals or men; [G.] to roll [of vehicles]”
northa- v. “to make run, *ride; [G.] to send rolling [as a vehicle], speed”
nuitha- v. “to stunt, prevent from coming to completion, stop short, not allow to continue”
nab- v. “to take, lay hold of”
nadh- v. “to chew, gnaw”
naeda- v. “to oppress, cause great grief to”
naegra- v. “to pain”
naena- v. “to lament, wail for, make moan for, ⚠️weep”
nathla- v. “to welcome”
nethan- v. “to inspire, kindle inside”
nethia- v. “to entertain, (orig.) to make welcome”
nev- v. “to seem, appear”
nevia- v. “to localize, bring close, translate (into your own language), translate (into another language when used with the dative case)”
nevra- v. “to face, go forward”
nî- v. “was”
nída- v. “to weep, cry (tears)”
ninna- v. “to weep, *cry (tears)”
nista- v. “to press, thrust, force (in a given direction)”
nítha-¹ v. “to snow, hail, ⚠️rain”
nítha-² v. “to reduce, make small”
níthannen v. “reduced, minor”
norna- v. “to complain of, ⚠️bewail, lament”
nosta- v. “to smell”
nuicha- v. “to take notice, perceive; *(orig.) to smell [something]”
nunna- v. “to incline head, bend face down, *nod; to assent, *agree”
nuru- v. “to growl, grumble”
nag- v. “to bite; ⚠️[G.] to chew, gnaw”
†nara- v. “to tell”
narcha- v. “to rend”
nartha- v. “to kindle, *ignite, inflame, set fire to”
nasta- v. “to prick, point, stick, thrust”
nautha- v. “to conceive”
neledh- v. “*to go in, enter”
nella- v. “to sound (of bells), *ring”
nesta- v. “to heal”
nestag- v. “to insert, stick in”
nimmid(a)- v. “to whiten”
nod-² v. “to tie”

onna- v. “*to birth, give birth to”
ortha- v. “to raise”
oetha- v. “to lay eggs, nest”
ol-¹ v. “to pour”
ola- v. “to become”
olla- v. “to ooze, *trickle”
ora- v. “to heat up”
orna- v. “to burn (tr. and intr.)”
orvel- v. “to favour, *(lit.) love above”
osta- v. “to surround with walls, build up, fortify, protect; to surround”
ostol- v. “to circumnavigate, come around”
othra- v. “to get away, escape”
oltha- v. “to dream; ⚠️[G.] to appear as an apparition”
orthel- v. “to roof, screen above”
orthor- v. “to master, conquer”
osgar- v. “to cut round, amputate”
ovra- v. “to abound”

pad- v. “to step, walk”
padra- v. “to walk”
ped- v. “to say, speak”
pedh- v. “to incline, slope, ⚠️fall in steep slant”
pel- v. “to fade, wane”
pen- v. “to have not”
penna- v. “to come down (in a slant), fall”
plada- v. “to feel with the hand, stroke”
paetha- v. “to utter, speak, talk”
pan- v. “to arrange, order, settle; to set, put, place; to write a book”
partha- v. “to arrange, compose”
pasta- v. “to shake, wag, nod, flap”
path- v. “to smooth”
patha- v. “to reveal, show”
pavra- v. “to ail, be ill”
pelu- v. “to fence, enclose”
perna- v. “to turn”
pil- v. “to steal, rob, thieve”
pir- v. “to stir, stir round, make spin”
pista- v. “to suppose”
pítha- v. “to shoot”
pog- v. “futuere, *to copulate, have sex”
pol- v. “can, to be (physically) able to”
poltha- v. “to (physically) enable”
posta- v. “to stop, cease, leave off, ⚠️rest”
potha- v. “to tremble, quiver”
puida- v. “to clean, tidy, cleanse, ⚠️purify”
puitha- v. “*to have sex (with)”
panna- v. “to open, enlarge”
pannad(a)- v. “to fill (trans.)”
pathra- v. “to fill (intr.)”
pelia- v. “to spread”
penia- v. “to fix, set”
pessa- v. “to affect, concern”
presta- v. “to affect, trouble, disturb”
puia- v. “to spit”

raeda- v. “to catch in a net”
raitha- v. “to try, strive” see ritha-
reitha- v. “to try, strive” see ritha-
reth- v. “to remain in same place”
ritha- v. “to try, strive”
ruthra- v. “to rage”
radh- v. “to return (intransitive)”
raeda- v. “to smile”
raetha- v. “to reach at, reach for; to reach, extend (intr.)”
rag- v. “to break (asunder), burst”
ran- v. “to wander”
raph- v. “to snatch, seize, steal”
red- v. “to climb”
redh- v. “to sow”
redhia- v. “*to return (transitive)”
reitha- v. “to rescue, save (from ruin, peril, loss)”
ren- v. “to remember”
renia-¹ v. “to stray, wander”
renia-² v. “to sail, fly”
renna- v. “to remind”
rhib- v. “to scratch”
rib- v. “to flow like a (?torrent)”
rig-¹ v. “to twist, contort; *to confuse, disarrange, upset”
rin- v. “to revolve, ⚠️return, come back; to do again”
rínada- v. “to crown, coronate”
rista- v. “to cut; to rend, rip”
ritha- v. “to jerk, twitch, snatch”
ronga- v. “to hasten”
rov- v. “to tear”
ruida- v. “to pursue, chase”
run- v. “to rub, grind”
runna- v. “to polish, burnish”
rada- v. “to make a way, find a way”
rosta- v. “to hollow out, excavate”

sav- v. “to have”
seidia- v. “to set aside, appropriate to a special purpose or owner”
síla- v. “*to shine”
suilanna- v. “to greet, *give greeting”
sab- v. “to dig”
saeda- v. “to teach, *train, (lit.) make wise”
saera- v. “to urinate”
saetha- v. “to cause hunger”
salcha- v. “to scythe or mow”
sav- v. “to believe in, accept as fact”
sedh- v. “to rest”
sesta- v. “to set, (lit.) to make rest (on)”
sibra- v. “to whimper, ⚠️weep”
somma- v. “to dive, duck”
sov- v. “to wash clean, bathe”
súda- v. “to blow (of wind)”
sautha- v. “to drain”
siria- v. “to flow”
sog- v. “to drink”

teitha- v. “to write, draw, inscribe, make marks or signs”
thel- v. “to intend, mean, purpose, resolve, will”
theria- v. “to be vigorous, flourish”
tho- v. “*will be”
tir- v. “to look (towards), watch (over), guard; ⚠️[G.] to look (out) for, watch for, await, expect”
tíra- v. “to see”
tiria- v. “to watch, gaze; to ward, guard”
tol- v. “to come”
v. “to stop, block, close”
tag- v. “to fix, make firm, *fasten, ⚠️construct”
taltha- v. “to slip (down), collapse, fall in ruin”
tana- v. “to show, indicate, point out”
tar- v. “to stand”
asta- v. “to (put to the) test, *verify”
augla- v. “to resist”
tel- v. “to end, finish, be done”
tertha- v. “to destroy, *ruin, †(orig.) to make pierced; ⚠️to devour”
tev- v. “to detest, hate”
thaetha- v. “to split”
thag- v. “to draw, pull”
thar- v. “to saw (up)”
tharchol- v. “to translate, (lit.) carry-across”
thas- v. “to shave”
ther- v. “to sew”
thimma- v. “to play a flute or whistle”
thista- v. “to dry up”
thiv- v. “to skim”
thúna- v. “to be spiritually affected, inspired”
tinthiltha- v. “to twinkle, *sparkle”
tiph- v. “to whistle”
tisga- v. “to tickle”
tobla- v. “to hide”
tolcha- v. “to support, *steady, comfort; ⚠️to make firm, confirm”
tor- v. “to win, have victory”
tosta- v. “to cough”
tuilu- v. “to bud, open (of flowers and leaves)”
taetha- v. “to fasten, tie”
tamma- v. “to knock”
tangad(a)- v. “to make firm, confirm, establish, [ᴱN.] fix”
telia- v. “to play”
thilia- v. “to glisten”
thinna- v. “to fade, *(lit.) become grey”
thora- v. “to fence”
thosta- v. “to stink, *give off a smell”
thuia- v. “to breathe”
tinna- v. “to glint”
tírad(a)- v. "to correct, straighten, rectify" *tēratā- (cf. N. tangad(a)-, nimmid(a)-); cognate to NQ. térata- – @Echuidor | Tyelpelúmion, @Vyacheslav Stepanov
toba- v. “to cover, roof over”
tog- v. “to bring”
toltha- v. “to fetch”
tortha- v. “to wield, control”
trasta- v. “to harass, trouble”
trenar- v. “to recount, tell to the end”
trevad- v. “to traverse”
tuia- v. “to sprout, spring; to swell”

uil- v. “to rain”
uitha- v. “to smoke (trans.)”

ýda- v. “to hint; *to wink”