sniegas

Lithuanian

Sniegas

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *snáigas,[1][2] from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos. Compare Old Church Slavonic снѣгъ (sněgŭ).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sʲnʲjæɡɐs]

Noun

sniẽgas m (plural sniegaĩ) stress pattern 4

  1. snow

Declension

References

  1. Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook, Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015) “sniegas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 416
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