erkė

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See also: erke, Erke, erkę, and erke-

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Namų dulkių erkė - House dust mite

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian ērce, from Proto-Baltic , of unknown ultimate origin. Compare Proto-Slavic *ràkъ ~ *òrkъ (crayfish),[1] in which case a doublet of rõkis; possibly from an extinct substrate language.[2]

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Pronunciation

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Noun

érkė f (plural érkės) stress pattern 1

  1. tick, mite

Declension

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References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) “*òrkъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 374
  2. ^ Mažiulis, Vytautas (1997) “rokis”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian]‎ (in Lithuanian), volume 4, Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas, page 31