plaukas
Lithuanian
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Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Latvian plaûki (“fibres, flakes, dust (Livonian) hair”), possibly Sudovian laugi (“hair”); further origin beyond Baltic unclear.[1] Formally, the Baltic terms appear to be related to plaũkti (“to swim, float”), with hair being interpreted as "flowing" from a person's head. However, in addition to the semantics being tenuous, the accents of pláukas and plaũkti do not match.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pláukas m (plural plaukai̇̃) stress pattern 3[3]
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pláukas | plaukai̇̃ |
| genitive | pláuko | plaukų̃ |
| dative | pláukui | plaukáms |
| accusative | pláuką | pláukus |
| instrumental | pláuku | plaukai̇̃s |
| locative | plaukè | plaukuosè |
| vocative | pláuke | plaukai̇̃ |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007), “pláukas”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language][1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Vilnius University, page 469
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015), “plaukas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362
- ^ “plaukas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2026
- ^ “plaukas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN