łełs

See also: lels

Sudovian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic [Term?]. Compare Latvian liẽls, dialectal Lithuanian liẽlas (likely Latvianism), however Lithuanian di̇̀delis (“big”), Old Prussian debica (“big”).[1]

Adjective

łełſ

  1. large, big
    Antonym: maz (“small”)
    • “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 130, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
      wiełki [wielki] — łełſ
      wiełki [wielki] — large

References

  1. ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, →DOI, page 75: “łełſ ’didelis, l. wiełki’ 130.”
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