peilis
Lithuanian
Etymology
Probably borrowed from Germanic, from Proto-West Germanic *fį̄hlu (“file, rasp”).[1] Compare German Feile (“file (tool)”) and English file, as well as Proto-Slavic *pila (“saw”), itself borrowed from the Germanic.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpʲɛɪ̯ˑlʲɪs̪]
Noun
pei̇̃lis m (plural pei̇̃liai) stress pattern 2
Declension
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | pei̇̃lis | pei̇̃liai |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | pei̇̃lio | pei̇̃lių |
| dative (naudininkas) | pei̇̃liui | pei̇̃liams |
| accusative (galininkas) | pei̇̃lį | peiliùs |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | peiliù | pei̇̃liais |
| locative (vietininkas) | pei̇̃lyje | pei̇̃liuose |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | pei̇̃li | pei̇̃liai |
See also
- durklas
References
- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “piła piła”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 414
- ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “peĩlis”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, , →ISBN, page 446
- ^ “peilis” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN