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briauna

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See also: briauną

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *brewn-; see also English preen, Albanian brez.[1][2]

Noun

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briaunà f (plural briaũnos) stress pattern 4[3] (diminutive briaunẽlė)

  1. verge,[4] brim
    puodo briauna[3] - a brim of a pot
  2. edge[4]
    peilio briauna[3] - an edge of a knife
  3. crumb[3]

Declension

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Orel, Vladimir E. (1998) “briauna”, in Albanian Etymological Dictionary, Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, →ISBN, page 36.
  2. ^ Vladimir Orel, A Handbook of Germanic Etymology (Leiden: Brill, 2003), 293.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN