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Latvian
Pronoun
dažai
- dative singular feminine of dažs
Lithuanian
Etymology
Traditionally derived from Proto-Indo-European *deǵʰ- (“liquid, mixture”) and compared with Old Irish deug (“drink, draught, potion”), Welsh diod (“id”);[1][2] the zero-grade of this root is perhaps found in žuvìs (“fish”) < *dǵʰ-uH-. This derivation is favored by Kloekhorst,[3] though Smoczynski appears to be implicitly skeptical.[4]
Pronunciation
Noun
dažaĩ m pl stress pattern 4
- paint, dye
- Daĩlininko pavéikslų tapýba atliẽkama añt dróbės aliẽjiniais dažaĩs. ― This artist's paintings are drawn on canvas with oil paints.
Declension
Declension of dažaĩ (plural-only)
Derived terms
References
- ^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “dažaĩ”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 84
- ^ MacBain, Alexander, Mackay, Eneas (1911) “deoch”, in An Etymological Dictionary of the Gaelic Language, Stirling, →ISBN, pages 129-30
- ^ Kortlandt, Frederik (2014) “Proto-Indo-European “thorn”-clusters”, in Historische Sprachforschung / Historical Linguistics, volume 127, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →JSTOR, page 59:
Already Brandenstein (1936: 29) connected the word for ‘fish’ with a root *deǵʰ-, which he translates as “eintauchen”. However, on the basis of OIr. deug (f.) ‘drink, draught, potion’ and Lith. dažaĩ ‘liquid dye, paint’, dažýti ‘to paint’, the nominal root *deǵʰ- may originally rather have meant ‘liquid’. This would indicate that *dǵʰ-uH- originally meant ‘the one belonging to liquid; fish’.
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “dažyti”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 96