nugara
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See also: nugarą
Lithuanian
[edit]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]
Declension
[edit]Declension of nùgara
singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
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nominative (vardininkas) | nùgara | nùgaros |
genitive (kilmininkas) | nùgaros | nùgarų |
dative (naudininkas) | nùgarai | nùgaroms |
accusative (galininkas) | nùgarą | nùgaras |
instrumental (įnagininkas) | nùgara | nùgaromis |
locative (vietininkas) | nùgaroje | nùgarose |
vocative (šauksmininkas) | nùgara | nùgaros |
Derived terms
[edit](Nouns)
References
[edit]- ^ “nùgara” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 817 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
- ^ “nugara” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
- ^ “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