ąžuolas

Lithuanian

Alternative forms

  • aržuolas, ūžuolas, áižuols

Etymology

From dialectal áižuols, from *aiǵ-ōl, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂eyǵ- (“oak”). The standard form and all other variants are secondary.[1] Proto-Slavic *ǫ̀zlъ (“knot”) is possibly related.[2]

Cognates

Baltic: Latvian ozols (uôzuõls) and Old Prussian ansonis.[3]
Proto-Indo-European: English oak, Albanian enjë (“juniper, yew”), Latin aesculus (“Durmast oak”), Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps, “Turkey oak”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈä̂ːʒʊəɫɐs̪]

Noun

ą́žuolas m (plural ąžuolai̇̃) stress pattern 3a[4]

  1. (Quercus) oak

Declension

Declension of ą́žuolas
singular
(vienaskaita) 		plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) ą́žuolas ąžuolai̇̃
genitive (kilmininkas) ą́žuolo ąžuolų̃
dative (naudininkas) ą́žuolui ąžuoláms
accusative (galininkas) ą́žuolą ą́žuolus
instrumental (įnagininkas) ą́žuolu ąžuolai̇̃s
locative (vietininkas) ąžuolè ąžuoluosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) ą́žuole ąžuolai̇̃

Hypernyms

Derived terms

(Nouns)

  • (diminutive) ąžuolėlis

See also

  • ōžouls (Samogitian)

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “aik-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 9
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “ąžuolas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 75
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 388.
  4. ^ “ąžuolas” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.

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