malūnas
Lithuanian
Etymology
- Borrowed from Latin mulinum or molinum, then modelled after a verb málti (“to mill”). According to Aleksander Brückner, the Lithuanian knew neither windmills nor watermills, but used only grindstones (Polish żarna; compare Lithuanian gi̇̀rna).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [mɐɫǔːn̪ɐs̪]
Noun
malū̃nas m (plural malū̃nai) stress pattern 2
Declension
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | malū̃nas | malū̃nai |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | malū̃no | malū̃nų |
| dative (naudininkas) | malū̃nui | malū̃nams |
| accusative (galininkas) | malū̃ną | malūnùs |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | malūnù | malū̃nais |
| locative (vietininkas) | malūnè | malū̃nuose |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | malū̃ne | malū̃nai |
References
- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “młyn młyn”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 341
- ^ “malūnas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN