garbė
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“to praise”). Cognate with Latvian gãrbe (“cautious treatment”), Lithuanian ger̃bti (“to honor”).
Noun
garbė̃ f (plural gar̃bės) stress pattern 4
- honor
- 1918, Maironis (Jonas Mačiulis), “Pirmyn į kovą!”, in Vienybė, number 2:
- Garbė tėvams, kurie ją gynė ir kas už ateitį kovos!
- Honor to the fathers who defended [Lithuania] and who will fight for its future!
Declension
Declension of garbė̃
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | garbė̃ | gar̃bės |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | garbė̃s | garbių̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | gar̃bei | garbė́ms |
| accusative (galininkas) | gar̃bę | garbès |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | garbè | garbėmìs |
| locative (vietininkas) | garbėjè | garbėsè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | gar̃be | gar̃bės |
References
- “garbė”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “garbė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 164
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 478, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 478
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