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Lithuanian
Etymology
Cognate with Latvian dâbuls (“clover”); further origin outside of Baltic uncertain.[1] The details of the relation to the Baltic word for apple (see Lithuanian obuolỹs, Latvian dâbuôls) remain unclear.[2][3]
Pronunciation
Noun
dóbilas m (plural dobilaĩ) stress pattern 3a[4]
- (botany) (Trifolium) clover
Declension
Hypernyms
Derived terms
nouns derived from dobilas
References
- “dobilas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
- ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “dobilaĩ”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 117
- ^ “dobilas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 340
- ^ “dobilas” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.