eilė

Lithuanian

Etymology

A nominal derivative of eĩti (“to go”); for a semantic parallel (albeit from a different Proto-Indo-European root), compare Ancient Greek στοῖχος (stoîkhos, “row, line, turn”), from στείχω (steíkhō, “to walk, march”). Direct cognate with Latvian eila (“row”), iela (“street”).^[1]^[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

eilė̃ f (plural eĩlės) stress pattern 4^[3]

Declension

Declension of eilė̃

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	eilė̃	eĩlės
genitive (kilmininkas)	eilė̃s	eilių̃
dative (naudininkas)	eĩlei	eilė́ms
accusative (galininkas)	eĩlę	eilès
instrumental (įnagininkas)	eilè	eilėmìs
locative (vietininkas)	eilėjè	eilėsè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	eĩle	eĩlės

Derived terms

eilùtė (“dress; mathematical series”)

References

^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “eilė̃”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 119
^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “eilė̃”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 143-4
^ “eilė”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024

[1] Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “eilė̃”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 119

[2] Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “eilė̃”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 143-4

[3] “eilė”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024

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