vanduo

Lithuanian

Etymology

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).

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɐnˈdʊɔ/

Noun

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

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

• angliavandenis
• undinė
• vaisvandeniai
• vandenilis
• vandeningas
• vandeninis
• Vandenis
• vandenis m, vandenė f
• vandeniuotas
• vandenynas
• vandenligė
• vandensraigtis
• vandensvydis
• vandentakis
• vandentiekininkas
• vandentiekis
• vandenvietė
• vandenženklis

Related terms

• ūdra
• audra (possibly)

Further reading

• “vanduo”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025