amalas
Asturian
Verb
amalas
- second-person singular present subjunctive of amalar
Lithuanian
Alternative forms
- ẽmalas
Etymology
Cognate to Latvian amuols, ãmulis, Old Prussian emelno (“mistletoe”), Proto-Slavic *emela (“mistletoe”).[1][2][3]
Plausibly a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈaːmɐlɐs/
Noun
ãmalas m (plural amalai̇̃) stress pattern 3b
- mistletoe
- amalo šakelė ― a sprig of mistletoe
- heat lightning
- alternative form of ãmaras (“aphid; the plant disease of being affected by aphids”)
- blight, rust (as a crop disease likened to heat lightning)
- Synonym: rūdys
Declension
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | ãmalas | amalai̇̃ |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | ãmalo | amalų̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | ãmalui | amaláms |
| accusative (galininkas) | ãmalą | ãmalus |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | ãmalu | amalai̇̃s |
| locative (vietininkas) | amalè | amaluosè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | ãmale | amalai̇̃ |
See also
- laumės šluota (literally “fairy's (witch's) broom”)
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “amalas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 54
- ^ “amalas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- ^ “amalas” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 26 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
Further reading
- “amalas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
- “amalas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2025
Spanish
Verb
amalas