tinklas

Lithuanian

Tinklas

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian tìkls (net), Old Prussian sasintinklo (hare net), Proto-Slavic *teneto (net, snare). From Proto-Indo-European *ten- (to stretch). Compare Sanskrit तन्त्र (tantra, loom).

Noun

tiñklas m (plural tiñklai) stress pattern 2

  1. net
  2. network

Declension

References

  • tinklas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “tinklas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 467
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