bailė

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Lithuanian

Alternative forms

Etymology

From the root bai- +‎ -lė (see baidyti), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeyh₂- (to fear). Cognate with Latvian baîle (fear).

Noun

báilė f (plural báilės) stress pattern 1

  1. fear

Inflection

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References

  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “bailė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 76