abrinas

Lithuanian

Etymology

From ãbrė (“kneading trough, wooden container for food preservation”) +‎ -inas, which is borrowed from Latvian abra (“id.”), of obscure origin. This term has been connected with Old Prussian aboros, but Mažiulis prefers to analyse the latter as a prefixed formation within Prussian.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈä̌ːbʲrʲɪn̪ɐs̪]

Noun

ãbrinas m (plural abrinaĩ) stress pattern 3

1. (ethnography, Samogitia) wooden container for food preservation, carved from hollowed out tree trunks

Declension

Declension of ãbrinas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	ãbrinas	abrinaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	ãbrino	abrinų̃
dative (naudininkas)	ãbrinui	abrináms
accusative (galininkas)	ãbriną	ãbrinus
instrumental (įnagininkas)	ãbrinu	abrinaĩs
locative (vietininkas)	abrinè	abrinuosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	ãbrine	abrinaĩ

Further reading

• “abrinas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024