kelis

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Lithuanian

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Vyro kelis - A man's knee

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kel-, *kal-. Cognate to Proto-Slavic *kolěno (“knee”) and Latvian celis (“knee”), as well as dialectal Lithuanian kelė́nas (“knee”); see the Proto-Slavic for more.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

kẽlis m (plural kẽliai) stress pattern 2

  1. (anatomy) knee

Declension

Declension of kẽlis
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) kẽlis kẽliai
genitive (kilmininkas) kẽlio kẽlių
dative (naudininkas) kẽliui kẽliams
accusative (galininkas) kẽlį keliùs
instrumental (įnagininkas) keliù kẽliais
locative (vietininkas) kẽlyje kẽliuose
vocative (šauksmininkas) kẽli kẽliai

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “kelis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 235


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Pronoun

kelis

  1. accusative plural of kel
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