karvelis
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]kárvė (“cow”) + -elis (“diminutive suffix”), literally “little cow”,[1] from the practice of pigeons feeding crop milk to their young.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]karvẽlis m (plural karvẽliai) stress pattern 2
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | karvẽlis | karvẽliai |
| genitive | karvẽlio | karvẽlių |
| dative | karvẽliui | karvẽliams |
| accusative | karvẽlį | karveliùs |
| instrumental | karveliù | karvẽliais |
| locative | karvẽlyje | karvẽliuose |
| vocative | karvẽli | karvẽliai |
See also
[edit]- balañdis m
References
[edit]- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007), “karvẽlis”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language][1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Vilnius University, page 261
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “balandis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 78