žirklės

See also: žirkles

Lithuanian

Etymology

From phonetic assimilation and degemination of *žirg-kl- (“spread legs”) > *žirk-kl-, and related to žer̃gti (“to spread the legs”), ži̇̀rgas (“steed”),[1] probably from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerg-. Outside of Lithuanian, perhaps related to Latin furca (“fork”), though the mismatch in the vowels between the Lithuanian and Latin forms is hard to explain.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʒɪrkleːs/

Noun

ži̇̀rklės f pl stress pattern 1 [3]

  1. (plural only) scissors
    Siuvėjas žirklėmis kerpa audeklą.[3]
    A tailor cuts cloth with scissors.
  2. (figuratively, plural only) legs

Declension

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Declension of ži̇̀rklės (plural-only)
nominative ži̇̀rklės
genitive ži̇̀rklių
dative ži̇̀rklėms
accusative ži̇̀rkles
instrumental ži̇̀rklėmis
locative ži̇̀rklėse
vocative ži̇̀rklės

Synonyms

Hypernyms

References

  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “ži̇̀rklės”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 788
  2. ^ De Vaan, Michiel (2008) “furca”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 251-2
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 “žirklės” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.

Further reading

  • “žirklės” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
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