gulbė

Hello, you have come here looking for the meaning of the word gulbė. In DICTIOUS you will not only get to know all the dictionary meanings for the word gulbė, but we will also tell you about its etymology, its characteristics and you will know how to say gulbė in singular and plural. Everything you need to know about the word gulbė you have here. The definition of the word gulbė will help you to be more precise and correct when speaking or writing your texts. Knowing the definition ofgulbė, as well as those of other words, enriches your vocabulary and provides you with more and better linguistic resources.
See also: gulbe and gulbę

Lithuanian

Lithuanian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia lt
Besiporuojančios Juodosios gulbės
Mating Black Swans

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gulbis, according to Pokorny, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“to flourish, shine, be joyful”).[1]

Balto-Slavic cognates include dialectal Lithuanian gulbis, Latvian gùlbis (“swan”), Old Prussian gulbis (“swan”), Proto-Slavic *gъlbь.

Pronunciation

Noun

gul̃bė f (plural gul̃bės) stress pattern 2

  1. swan

Declension

Declension of gul̃bė
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) gul̃bė gul̃bės
genitive (kilmininkas) gul̃bės gul̃bių
dative (naudininkas) gul̃bei gul̃bėms
accusative (galininkas) gul̃bę gulbès
instrumental (įnagininkas) gulbè gul̃bėmis
locative (vietininkas) gul̃bėje gul̃bėse
vocative (šauksmininkas) gul̃be gul̃bės

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “366-67”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 366-67
Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia