Lat

Lat: verb. To lat is to fail, spoil or destroy either oneself, another person or an object. The word was invented in connection with the absolutely incomprehensible move by the Latvian government in exchanging one of the most stable and valuable currencies in the world for the Euro, which the English speaking part of the Lithuanian press commented on with the headline: "Latvians lament the latted Lat." The verb lat itself is quite difficult to use in sentences. In fact, the Lithuanian newspaper used it incorrectly, but given it was the word's first occurrence in modern history, it's not much of a tragedy. The declensions go like this: I lat, you let, he/she lits, we latten, you (pl) letter, they litten. However, in the past tense, the word takes the form of: I lut, you lout, he/she lot, we lutted, you (pl) louted, they lotted.