žirklės

See also: žirkles

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žirklės

Etymology

From phonetic assimilation and degemination of *žirg-kl- (“spread legs”) > *žirk-kl-, and related to žer̃gti (“to spread the legs”), žìrgas (“steed”),^[1] probably from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerg-. Outside of Lithuanian, perhaps related to Latin furca (“fork”), though the mismatch in the vowels between the Lithuanian and Latin forms is hard to explain.^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈʒɪrkleːs/

Noun

žìrklės f pl stress pattern 1 ^[3]

(plural only) scissors
Siuvėjas žirklėmis kerpa audeklą.^[3]
A tailor cuts cloth with scissors.
(figuratively, plural only) legs

Declension

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Declension of žìrklės (plural-only)

nominative	žìrklės
genitive	žìrklių
dative	žìrklėms
accusative	žìrkles
instrumental	žìrklėmis
locative	žìrklėse
vocative	žìrklės

Synonyms

(legs): kojos

Hypernyms

(scissors): įrankis

References

^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “žìrklės”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 788
^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “furca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 251-2
↑ ^3.0 ^3.1 “žirklės” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.