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Lithuanian
- gylė̃ (stress pattern: 4)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷelh₂-.[1] Cognate with Latvian zīle,[1] Old Prussian gile,[1] Polish żołądź,[1] Greek βάλανος (válanos),[1] and Latin glāns.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
gìlė f (plural gìlės) stress pattern 2 [2]
- acorn[3]
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*želǫdь”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 556
- ^ “gilė” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
- ^ “gilė” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN