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Lithuanian
Etymology
kárvė (“cow”) + -elis (“diminutive suffix”), literally “little cow”,[1] from the practice of pigeons feeding crop milk to their young.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
karvẽlis m (plural karvẽliai) stress pattern 2
- pigeon
Declension
See also
References
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “karvẽlis”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 261
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “balandis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 78