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Lithuanian
Etymology
Related to Latvian krāsns (“stove, oven”), with an original meaning of "pile of stones", likely related to Latvian krât (“to collect, save, stack”), Proto-Slavic *kràsti (“to steal”); see the latter for more.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
krósnis f (plural krósnys) stress pattern 1
- oven
- kiln
Declension
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “krosnis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 260