mėsa
Appearance
See also: Appendix:Variations of "mesa"
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Per Derksen, from *mēnsā́ˀ, the plural of Proto-Balto-Slavic *mḗns (“meat”).[1] However, Smoczyński considers the term a borrowing from Old Ruthenian мѧсо (mjaso, “meat”) (> Belarusian мя́са (mjása)), which replaced native Lithuanian *męsà or *mę̃sas.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]mėsà f (plural mė̃sos) stress pattern 4
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | mėsà | mė̃sos |
| genitive | mėsõs | mėsų̃ |
| dative | mė̃sai | mėsóms |
| accusative | mė̃są | mėsàs |
| instrumental | mėsà | mėsomi̇̀s |
| locative | mėsojè | mėsosè |
| vocative | mė̃sa | mė̃sos |
Derived terms
[edit]- mėsė̃dis (“carnivore”)
- mė̃sininkas (“butcher”)
References
[edit]- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “mėsa”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 312: “BSl. *mēns; *mēnsaʔ”
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007), “mėsà”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language][1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Vilnius University, page 738
Categories:
- Lithuanian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Lithuanian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Lithuanian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Lithuanian terms borrowed from Old Ruthenian
- Lithuanian terms derived from Old Ruthenian
- Lithuanian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Lithuanian lemmas
- Lithuanian nouns
- Lithuanian feminine nouns