alavas

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See also: ålåvas

Lithuanian

alavas

Etymology

The native cognate álvas was displaced by a borrowing from Russian о́лово (ólovo, tin). Compare Latvian al̂va (tin), Old Prussian alwis (lead). Formal discrepancies imply that this word is probably ultimately a non-Indo-European borrowing.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈaːlɐvɐs/

Noun

ãlavas m (uncountable) stress pattern 3

  1. tin (metallic element with chemical symbol Sn)

Declension

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53

Portuguese

Verb

alavas

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