bitė

See also: bite, Bite, bité, bitē, bǐtè, and bitę

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bitē (compare Latvian bite), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-, *bʰī-. Cognate to English bee.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbʲɪtʲeː]

Noun

bi̇̀tė f (plural bi̇̀tės) stress pattern 2

  1. bee

Declension

Declension of bi̇̀tė
singular
(vienaskaita) 		plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) bi̇̀tė bi̇̀tės
genitive (kilmininkas) bi̇̀tės bi̇̀čių
dative (naudininkas) bi̇̀tei bi̇̀tėms
accusative (galininkas) bi̇̀tę bitès
instrumental (įnagininkas) bitè bi̇̀tėmis
locative (vietininkas) bi̇̀tėje bi̇̀tėse
vocative (šauksmininkas) bi̇̀te bi̇̀tės

See also

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 91-2
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