pelė
See also: Appendix:Variations of "pele"
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *peliā (compare Latvian pele (“mouse”), Old Prussian pele (“harrier”)), from Proto-Indo-European *pelH- (“gray”) (compare Lithuanian pálšas (“ashy gray”), pi̇̀lkas (“gray”)).[1]
The computing sense is a semantic loan from English mouse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [pʲɛˈlʲeː]
Noun
pelė̃ f (plural pẽlės) stress pattern 4
Declension
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | pelė̃ | pẽlės |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | pelė̃s | pelių̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | pẽlei | pelė́ms |
| accusative (galininkas) | pẽlę | pelès |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | pelè | pelėmi̇̀s |
| locative (vietininkas) | pelėjè | pelėsè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | pẽle | pẽlės |
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “pelė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 348