plaukas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian plaûki (“fibres, flakes, dust (Livonian) hair”), possibly Sudovian laugi (“hair”).

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpɫä̂ˑʊ̯kɐs̪]

Noun

pláukas m (plural plaukaĩ) stress pattern 3

1. (usually in the plural) hair

   kirpti / pinti plaukus - to cut / to plait hairs

Declension

Declension of pláukas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	pláukas	plaukaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	pláuko	plaukų̃
dative (naudininkas)	pláukui	plaukáms
accusative (galininkas)	pláuką	pláukus
instrumental (įnagininkas)	pláuku	plaukaĩs
locative (vietininkas)	plaukè	plaukuosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	pláuke	plaukaĩ

See also

• kasa

Further reading

• “plaukas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “plaukas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362