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Lithuanian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Baltic *dumblás, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”) via nasal infixation. Cognate with Latvian dumbla (dialectal), dubļi pl (“mud”), perhaps further akin to Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak”).
Noun
dum̃blas m stress pattern 2
- mud, silt
- (by extension) mire, heath, bog
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References
- “dumblas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “dumblas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 145