dumblas
Lithuanian
Etymology
Inherited from Proto-Baltic *dumblás, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *dʰewbʰ- (“deep”) via nasal infixation. Cognate with Latvian dumbla (dialectal), dubļi pl (“mud”), perhaps further akin to Proto-Slavic *dǫbъ (“oak”).
Noun
dum̃blas m stress pattern 2
Declension
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | dum̃blas | dum̃blai |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | dum̃blo | dum̃blų |
| dative (naudininkas) | dum̃blui | dum̃blams |
| accusative (galininkas) | dum̃blą | dum̃blus |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | dum̃blu | dum̃blais |
| locative (vietininkas) | dum̃ble | dum̃bluose |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | dum̃ble | dum̃blai |
Derived terms
- dumblùs (“viscous, silty”)
Related terms
- dumbė̃ (“cavity”) (possibly)
References
- “dumblas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “dumblas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 145