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Lithuanian
Etymology
An adjectival formation from kiáušas (“skull, peel, shell”), reanalyzed as a noun.[1][2] By surface analysis, kiáušas + -ìnis (“adjectival suffix”) .
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Noun
kiaušìnis m (plural kiaušìniai) stress pattern 2 [3][4]
- egg
- kiaušìnio lùkštas - an eggshell
- viščiùkai rìtasi ìš kiaušìnių[5] - chickens hatch out of the eggs
Declension
Derived terms
nouns derived from kiaušinis
References
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “kiaušìnis”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 282
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “kiaušinis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 243
- ^ “kiaušinis” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
- ^ “kiaušinis” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
- ^ “risti” in Balčikonis, op. cit.