lėkštas
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Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Cognate with Latvian lēzns (“flat, even”), of uncertain further origin. Often connected to Proto-Germanic *lēgaz (“low, flat”), assuming an earlier form of lēž-tas for the Lithuanian (based on the Latvian cognates), and further taken to be from a Proto-Indo-European *leh₁ģʰ- (“to lie down”);[1] however, the Proto-Indo-European root in question is generally reconstructed as *legʰ-, which cannot produce the Baltic forms.
Possibly related to ložė́ti (“to lie down on the ground; (of grain blown by rain and wind) to fly off”).
Pronunciation
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Adjective
[edit]lė̃kštas m
Declension
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References
[edit]- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “ložė́ti”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, pages 364-5