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Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *edlis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁edʰ- (“pointy, sharp”). Cognate with Latvian egle (“spruce, fir”), Old Prussian addle (“spruce, fir”), Proto-Slavic *ȅdlь (“spruce”).
Pronunciation
Noun
ẽglė f (plural ẽglės) stress pattern 2
- spruce (tree from the genus Picea)
Declension
Hypernyms
Derived terms
adjectives derived from eglė
References
- Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 139
- “eglė” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.