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Lithuanian
Etymology
By surface analysis, duõbti (“to hollow out”) + -ė.
Noun
duobė̃ f (plural duõbės) stress pattern 4
- hole, hollow, cavity
- grave, flower-bed
- (dialectal) deep spot in a river
Declension
References
- “duobė”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “duobė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 146
- Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “duobė”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 376