nugara

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See also: nugarą

Lithuanian[edit]

 nugara on Lithuanian Wikipedia
Nugara

Etymology[edit]

Compare Latvian mugura. The "m"/"n" sound change is irregular. Further etymology unclear.

These words have been compared to Proto-Slavic *mogyla (mound), as words for "back" are often related to landscape terms. However, this connection could only hold if the Baltic and Slavic terms are independently borrowed from a common substrate language, since regular sound changes are not observed.[1]

Pronunciation[edit]

Noun[edit]

nùgara f (plural nùgaros) stress pattern 1 [2]

  1. (anatomy) back[3]
    nùgaros skaũsmas - back pain

Declension[edit]

Derived terms[edit]

(Nouns)

References[edit]

  1. ^ nùgara” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 817 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
  2. ^ “nugara” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  3. ^ “nugara” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Further reading[edit]

  • nugara”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • nugara”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024