kiaušinis

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Etymology

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An adjectival formation from kiáušas (skull, peel, shell), reanalyzed as a noun.[1][2] By surface analysis, kiáušas +‎ -ìnis (adjectival suffix) .

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kiaušìnis m (plural kiaušìniai) stress pattern 2 [3][4]

  1. egg
    kiaušìnio lùkštas - an eggshell
    viščiùkai rìtasi ìš kiaušìnių[5] - chickens hatch out of the eggs

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “kiaušìnis”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 282
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “kiaušinis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 243
  3. ^ “kiaušinis” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  4. ^ “kiaušinis” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
  5. ^ “risti” in Balčikonis, op. cit.