debesis

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See also: Debesis and debesīs

Latvian

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Noun

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debesis f

  1. nominative/vocative/accusative plural of debess

Lithuanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (cloud).[2] Cognates include Latvian debess[3] (“sky”), Polish niebo (sky, heaven),[3] and Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, cloud, mass of clouds).[3]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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debesìs m (plural dẽbesys) stress pattern 3b

  1. cloud
  2. (figuratively) flock
    paukščių debesis[1] - a flock of birds

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 “debesis” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “debesis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 118
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 347–348.