langas
Dupaningan Agta
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /la.ˈŋas/
Noun
langás
Synonyms
Lithuanian
Etymology
Cognate with Latvian logs, Old Prussian lanxto; further origin outside of Baltic unclear. Buck and Fraenkel suggest a derivation from lingúoti (“to rock”), referring originally to swinging windows (that is, windows whose panes swing in and out to open)[1][2] while Smoczynski suggests a derivation from lañkas (“bow”), owing to the semicircular shape of a bow resembling that of many windows.[3] Either way, both derivations likely lead to a root from the same family as Proto-Balto-Slavic *lénktei (“to bend, twine”).
Noun
lángas m (plural langai̇̃) stress pattern 3
- window
- (colloquial, education) free period
Declension
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | lángas | langai̇̃ |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | lángo | langų̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | lángui | langáms |
| accusative (galininkas) | lángą | lángus |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | lángu | langai̇̃s |
| locative (vietininkas) | langè | languosè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | lánge | langai̇̃ |
References
- ^ “langas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
- ^ Fraenkel, Ernst (1955, 1962–1965) “lángas”, in Litauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume I, Heidelberg-Göttingen: Carl Winter and Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, page 339
- ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “lángas”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, , →ISBN, pages 335-6
Further reading
- “langas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
Swedish
Verb
langas