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Lithuanian
Etymology
Cognate with Latvian ciska (“thigh”).
Etymology details
- One hypothesis links this to Sanskrit किष्कु (kiṣku, “forearm”), but this has difficulties.
- Another hypothesis links this to Proto-Indo-European *koḱs- (“joint”), e.g. Sanskrit कक्ष (kakṣa, “armpit”), Latin coxa (“hip”).
- Fraenkel suggests (and Derksen concurs) that the vowel -i- is due to influence from kìnka (“thigh, haunch”).
- Endzelīns suggests that *kš metathesized to šk. Derksen disagrees and claims PIE *ḱs yields š in Lithuanian, and that the final -ka is due to influence from other words, such as kìnka
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Noun
kiškà f (plural kìškos) stress pattern 2
- thigh, haunch
- (of a pair of pants) leg
Declension
Further reading
- “kiška”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “kiška”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 248
Votic
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian кишка́ (kišká).
Noun
kiška
- (Pummala) hose
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
References
- Hallap, V., Adler, E., Grünberg, S., Leppik, M. (2012) “kiška”, in Vadja keele sõnaraamat [A dictionary of the Votic language], 2nd edition, Tallinn