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Sudovian
Etymology
Borrowed from a Finnic language, from Proto-Finnic *laiva, in turn borrowed from Proto-Germanic *flawją. Compare Lithuanian laĩvė (“boat”), laĩvas (“ship”), Latvian laĩva (“boat”).
Noun
ławe
- boat
References
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 75: “ławe ‘valtis, laivas, l. lodź‘ 95.”
- ^ K. T. Witczak (2020) “Ugrofinizmy w języku jaćwieskim [Finno-Ugric borrowings in Yatvingian]”, in Acta Baltico-Slavica (in Polish), volume 44, →DOI, page 152: “8. Jaćw. ławe ‘łódź’.”