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Latvian
Noun
debesis f
- nominative/vocative/accusative plural of debess
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *nébʰos (“cloud”).[2] Cognates include Latvian debess[3] (“sky”), Polish niebo (“sky, heaven”),[3] and Ancient Greek νέφος (néphos, “cloud, mass of clouds”).[3]
Pronunciation
Noun
debesìs m (plural dẽbesys) stress pattern 3b
- cloud
- (figuratively) flock
- paukščių debesis[1] - a flock of birds
Declension
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Nouns derived from debesis
Adjectives derived from debesis
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 “debesis” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “debesis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 118
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 347–348.