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Esperanto
[edit]Verb
[edit]kovas
- present of kovi
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Onomatopoeic of the rook's cry;[1] compare Proto-Slavic *gàvornъ (“rook”), English caw for similar formations. The shift to the "March" meaning comes from the fact that rooks (and other corvids) often begin building their rests in March.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]kóvas m (plural kovaĩ) stress pattern 3
- March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
- rook (bird)
Declension
[edit]Declension of kóvas
singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
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nominative (vardininkas) | kóvas | kovaĩ |
genitive (kilmininkas) | kóvo | kovų̃ |
dative (naudininkas) | kóvui | kováms |
accusative (galininkas) | kóvą | kóvus |
instrumental (įnagininkas) | kóvu | kovaĩs |
locative (vietininkas) | kovè | kovuosè |
vocative (šauksmininkas) | kóve | kovaĩ |
See also
[edit]- (Gregorian calendar months) sausis, vasaris, kovas, balandis, gegužė, birželis, liepa, rugpjūtis, rugsėjis, spalis, lapkritis, gruodis (Category: lt:Months)
References
[edit]- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “kóvas”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 306
Anagrams
[edit]Swedish
[edit]Noun
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