karvelis
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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
Declension
Declension of karvẽlis
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | karvẽlis | karvẽliai |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | karvẽlio | karvẽlių |
| dative (naudininkas) | karvẽliui | karvẽliams |
| accusative (galininkas) | karvẽlį | karveliùs |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | karveliù | karvẽliais |
| locative (vietininkas) | karvẽlyje | karvẽliuose |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | karvẽli | karvẽliai |
See also
- balañdis m
References
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “karvẽlis”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka 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