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langas

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See also: lanġas, längas, and långas

Dupaningan Agta

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Pronunciation

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Noun

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langás

  1. (anatomy) forehead; face

Synonyms

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Lithuanian

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 langas on Lithuanian Wikipedia
Langai

Etymology

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Cognate with Latvian logs, Old Prussian lanxto; further origin outside of Baltic unclear. Buck and Fraenkel suggest a derivation from lingúoti (to rock), referring originally to swinging windows (that is, windows whose panes swing in and out to open)[1][2] while Smoczynski suggests a derivation from lañkas (bow), owing to the semicircular shape of a bow resembling that of many windows.[3] Either way, both derivations likely lead to a root from the same family as Proto-Balto-Slavic *lénktei (to bend, twine).

Noun

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lángas m (plural langaĩ) stress pattern 3

  1. window
  2. (colloquial, education) free period

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ langas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  2. ^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “lángas”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 339
  3. ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “lángas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 335-6

Further reading

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Swedish

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Verb

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langas

  1. passive infinitive of langa
  2. present passive of langa

Anagrams

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