gegužė
Lithuanian
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Etymology
[edit]Onomatopoeic. Compare Latvian dzeguze (“cuckoo”) and Old Prussian geguse (“cuckoo”), the latter attested in the Elbing Vocabulary.[1]
The "May" meaning is from the "cuckoo" meaning;[2] cuckoos were associated with the month of May in pagan times,[3] perhaps as the month when they most flourished.
Pronunciation
[edit]- gegužė̃ IPA(key): [ɡʲɛɡʊˈʒʲěː]
- gegùžė IPA(key): [ɡʲɛˈɡʊʒʲeː]
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Noun
[edit]gegužė̃ f (plural gẽgužės) stress pattern 3b or gegùžė f (plural gegùžės) stress pattern 2[4]
- May (fifth month of the Gregorian calendar)
- cuckoo (bird)
Declension
[edit]- (stress pattern 3b)
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | gegužė̃ | gẽgužės |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | gegužė̃s | gegužių̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | gẽgužei | gegužė́ms |
| accusative (galininkas) | gẽgužę | gẽgužes |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | gẽguže | gegužėmi̇̀s |
| locative (vietininkas) | gegužėjè | gegužėsè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | gẽguže | gẽgužės |
- (stress pattern 2)
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | gegùžė | gegùžės |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | gegùžės | gegùžių |
| dative (naudininkas) | gegùžei | gegùžėms |
| accusative (galininkas) | gegùžę | gegužès |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | gegužè | gegùžėmis |
| locative (vietininkas) | gegùžėje | gegùžėse |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | gegùže | gegùžės |
Note: The more common stress pattern is 3b.
Synonyms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007), “gegužė̃ I”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language][1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Vilnius University, page 165
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007), “gegužė̃ II”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language][2] (in Polish), Vilnius: Vilnius University, pages 165-6
- ^ https://archive.ph/7f9UX
- ^ “gegužė” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
Further reading
[edit]- (Lithuanian) Valstybinė lietuvių kalbos komisija / Kaip kirčiuoti „gegužę“? (retrieved 13 May 2015)