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Lithuanian
Etymology
Proto-Balto-Slavic,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃-;[1] see gerklė (“throat”). Cognate with Polish gardło (“throat”)[1][2]
Pronunciation
Noun
gurklỹs m (plural gurkliaĩ) stress pattern 3 [3]
- (anatomy) crop, craw
- double chin
- neck (of a bottle etc.)
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 198. →ISBN
- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “gardło”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 135
- ^ “gurklys” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
- “gurklys” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN