liūnas

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Lithuanian

Etymology

Connected with the toponyms Lėvuõ (a river in Lithuania) and Latvian Lêvenis, from Proto-Indo-European *lewh₃- (to wash, make wet). See also liū́tas (rainy).

Pronunciation

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Noun

liū́nas m (plural liū́nai) stress pattern 1

  1. quagmire, morass (marshy area near a body of water)

Declension

References

  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “liū́nas”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 361