gulbė
Lithuanian
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Mating Black Swans
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gulbis. Derksen observes that the related Proto-Slavic *golbъ ~ *kolpъ (“swan, pelican (spoonbill)”) was “assume[d] a substratum origin."[1]
Balto-Slavic cognates include dialectal Lithuanian gulbis, Latvian gùlbis (“swan”), Old Prussian gulbis (“swan”), Proto-Slavic *gъlbь.
Pronunciation
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[edit]gul̃bė f (plural gul̃bės) stress pattern 2
Declension
[edit]| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | gul̃bė | gul̃bės |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | gul̃bės | gul̃bių |
| dative (naudininkas) | gul̃bei | gul̃bėms |
| accusative (galininkas) | gul̃bę | gulbès |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | gulbè | gul̃bėmis |
| locative (vietininkas) | gul̃bėje | gul̃bėse |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | gul̃be | gul̃bės |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015), Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN