laužas

Lithuanian

Laužas (2) - Bonfire

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian laûzs (“place in a forest with broken/uprooted trees”).

From the stem of láužti (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewǵ- (“to break”).

Noun

láužas m (plural laužaĩ) stress pattern 3

1. pile of sticks

   Hypernym: krūva (“heap, pile”)

2. bonfire

   Hypernym: ugnis (“fire”)

3. bear den

   Hypernym: guolis (“den, lair”)

4. pile of scrap, trash

   Hypernym: krūva (“heap, pile”)

5. broken branch

   Hypernym: šaka (“branch”)

Declension

Declension of láužas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	láužas	laužaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	láužo	laužų̃
dative (naudininkas)	láužui	laužáms
accusative (galininkas)	láužą	láužus
instrumental (įnagininkas)	láužu	laužaĩs
locative (vietininkas)	laužè	laužuosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	láuže	laužaĩ

Further reading

• “laužas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “laužas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 276