eglė

See also: egle, Egle, Eglė, and eglē

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *edlis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁edʰ- (pointy, sharp). Cognate with Latvian egle (spruce, fir), Old Prussian addle (spruce, fir), Proto-Slavic *ȅdlь (spruce).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈæːɡʲlʲeː]

Noun

ẽglė f (plural ẽglės) stress pattern 2

  1. spruce (tree from the genus Picea)

Declension

Hypernyms

  • medis m, pušūnai m pl

Derived terms

References

  • Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 139
  • “eglė” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
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