žirklės
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See also: žirkles
Lithuanian
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Etymology
[edit]From phonetic assimilation and degemination of *žirg-kl- (“spread legs”) > *žirk-kl-, and related to žer̃gti (“to spread the legs”), žìrgas (“steed”),[1] probably from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerg-. Outside of Lithuanian, perhaps related to Latin furca (“fork”), though the mismatch in the vowels between the Lithuanian and Latin forms is hard to explain.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]žìrklės f pl stress pattern 1 [3]
- (plural only) scissors
- (figuratively, plural only) legs
Declension
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Declension of žìrklės (plural-only)
Synonyms
[edit]- (legs): kojos
Hypernyms
[edit]- (scissors): įrankis
References
[edit]- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “žìrklės”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 788
- ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “furca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 251-2
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 “žirklės” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
Further reading
[edit]- “žirklės” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN