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Polish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspi.wa/
- Rhymes: -iwa
- Syllabification: spi‧ła
Verb
spiła
- third-person singular feminine past of spić
Sudovian
Etymology
- Zinkevičius compares the word to Latvian spilšs (“clear, pure, bright”).
- Alternatively, from Proto-Baltic , from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pelh- (“to split, separate, sever”). Compare Latvian spal̃va (“feather, hair, quill”), spilva (“cottongrass, little hair-like growths”), and Lithuanian spalvà (“color”) with further semantic development.
Noun
ſpiła
- little feather, quill
References
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 79: “ſpiła ‘plunksnelė, l. piorko’ 60.”
- ^ B. Kabašinskaitė & G. Klingenschmitt (2013) “Again on Lith. SPALVÀ: accent and etymology”, in Lietuvių kalba, volume 7, →DOI, pages 1–8 (does not discuss Sudovian)