smakra

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Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *smákras, from Proto-Indo-European *smóḱwr̥. Compare Lithuanian smãkras (“chin”), dialectal smakrà, rare Latvian smakrs (“chin”).

Noun

ſmakra

(anatomy) beard, (possibly also) chin
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 15, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
  broda — ſmakra
  broda — beard

References

^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? ”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 79: “ſmakra ‘barzda, l. broda’ 15.”
^ “smãkras” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–): “nar. sf. ſmakra Bart”.

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