jauja

Cognate with Latvian jaūja (“threshing floor”), Old Prussian jauge (“drying shed”). From the same root as javai (“cereals, grains”).

jáuja f (plural jáujos) stress pattern 1

1. a drying room for grains, or a barn with such a room

   Synonyms: duoba, džiovykla

2. the amount of grain processed in such a room
3. a threshing barn

   Synonyms: klojimas, kluonas

• “jauja”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “jauja”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 207

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• IPA^(key): /ˈxauxa/ [ˈxau̯.xa]
• Rhymes: -auxa
• Syllabification: jau‧ja

jauja f (plural jaujas)

1. fun place

• “jauja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014