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vanduo

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wandō (genitive singular *undnes); compare Latvian ûdens, Old Prussian wundan, Proto-Slavic *vodà. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥. The nasal infix is parallelled in Latin unda (wave), presumably analogically brought into the nominative from the oblique stem (cf. Proto-Indo-European genitive singular *udnés). The paradigm would then subsequently have been put back in line with other en-stem nouns (e.g. akmuõ).[1]

Clusters of the shape *nCn apparently blocked the action of Winter's law; compare also ugni̇̀s.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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vanduõ m (plural vándenys) stress pattern 3a

  1. water (the substance; the surface of a body of water)
    Ar̃ gãlima gérti vándenį i̇̀š čiáupo? - Can you drink water out of the taps?
    Čià gãlima atvỹkti vándeniu, óru ir žemè. - You can get here by air, land and sea.
  2. current, flow (of water)
    Čiukšė́damas plaũkia priẽš vándenį nedi̇̀delis gárlaivis - A small steamboat splashes along against the current.

Declension

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Declension of vanduõ
singular
(vienaskaita)
plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) vanduõ vándenys
genitive (kilmininkas) vandeñs vandenų̃
dative (naudininkas) vándeniui vandeni̇̀ms
accusative (galininkas) vándenį vándenis
instrumental (įnagininkas) vándeniu vandenimi̇̀s
locative (vietininkas) vandenyjè vandenysè
vocative (šauksmininkas) vandeniẽ vándenys

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488

Further reading

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