smegenys

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Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *masgen[1], from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos[1]. The Eastern Baltic forms seem to have experienced metathesis. Cognate with Old Prussian musgeno[1], Russian мозг (mozg)[1] and Old Icelandic mergr (“marrow”)[1].

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈs̪ʲmʲæ̌ːɡʲɛn̪ʲiːs̪]

Noun

smẽgenys f pl stress pattern 3b [2]

  1. (anatomy, plural only) brain[3]

Declension

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References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328. →ISBN
  2. ^ “smegenys” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  3. ^ “smegenys” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
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