dumblas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Baltic *dumblás, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”) via nasal infixation. Cognate with Latvian dumbla (dialectal), dubļi pl (“mud”), perhaps further akin to Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak”).

Noun

dum̃blas m stress pattern 2

1. mud, silt
2. (by extension) mire, heath, bog

Declension

Declension of dum̃blas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	dum̃blas	dum̃blai
genitive (kilmininkas)	dum̃blo	dum̃blų
dative (naudininkas)	dum̃blui	dum̃blams
accusative (galininkas)	dum̃blą	dum̃blus
instrumental (įnagininkas)	dum̃blu	dum̃blais
locative (vietininkas)	dum̃ble	dum̃bluose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	dum̃ble	dum̃blai

Derived terms

• dumblùs (“viscous, silty”)

Related terms

• dumbė̃ (“cavity”) (possibly)

References

• “dumblas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “dumblas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 145