savaitė

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Prussian sawayte,[1] itself borrowed from Polish sobota (“Saturday”).[2] Modern Lithuanian thus has a completely different word for "week" from Latvian, where a Slavic borrowing, nedēļa, is used, although compare obsolete Lithuanian nedėlia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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saváitė f (plural saváitės) stress pattern 1

  1. week
    Synonym: (obsolete) nedėlia

Declension

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Declension of saváitė
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) saváitė saváitės
genitive (kilmininkas) saváitės saváitių
dative (naudininkas) saváitei saváitėms
accusative (galininkas) saváitę saváites
instrumental (įnagininkas) saváite saváitėmis
locative (vietininkas) saváitėje saváitėse
vocative (šauksmininkas) saváite saváitės

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20120103230254/http://ualgiman.dtiltas.lt/skoliniai.html
  2. ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “saváitė”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 537
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