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Lithuanian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic *kulˀk-. Per Derksen, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kʷelh₁- (“to turn”).
Cognates include Bulgarian кълка (kǎlka), Macedonian колк (kolk) and Serbo-Croatian кук.
Noun
kulkšnis m
- ankle
References
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “kulkšnis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 262: “It seems plausible to me that the basic root is kʷelh₁ - 'turn'.”