laužas
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Laužas (2) - Bonfire
Lithuanian
Etymology
Cognate with Latvian laûzs (“place in a forest with broken/uprooted trees”).
From the stem of láužti (“to break”), from Proto-Indo-European *lewǵ- (“to break”).
Noun
láužas m (plural laužaĩ) stress pattern 3
- pile of sticks
- Hypernym: krūva (“heap, pile”)
- bonfire
- Hypernym: ugnis (“fire”)
- bear den
- Hypernym: guolis (“den, lair”)
- pile of scrap, trash
- Hypernym: krūva (“heap, pile”)
- broken branch
- Hypernym: šaka (“branch”)
Declension
Declension of láužas
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | láužas | laužaĩ |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | láužo | laužų̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | láužui | laužáms |
| accusative (galininkas) | láužą | láužus |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | láužu | laužaĩs |
| locative (vietininkas) | laužè | laužuosè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | láuže | laužaĩ |
Further reading
- “laužas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “laužas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 276