dykas
Appearance
See also: Dykas
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dīkas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰiHkos, according to Pokorny, from *deyh₁- (“to chase away, swing”).[1]
Cognate with Latvian dīks (“empty”), Proto-Slavic *dikъ (“wild”). Could be a borrowing from Slavic, but the difference in meaning is significant.
Adjective
[edit]dỹkas m (feminine dykà) stress pattern 4
Declension
[edit]Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of dykas
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of dykas
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- “dykas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “dykas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 129
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “2. dei̯ə- (di̯ā-, di̯ə-, dī-)”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 187
Swedish
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