plaukas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian plaûki (“fibres, flakes, dust (Livonian) hair”), possibly Sudovian laugi (“hair”); further origin beyond Baltic unclear.[1] Formally, the Baltic terms appear to be related to plaũkti (“to swim, float”), with hair being interpreted as "flowing" from a person's head. However, in addition to the semantics being tenuous, the accents of pláukas and plaũkti do not match.[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɫä̂ˑʊ̯kɐs̪]

Noun

pláukas m (plural plaukai̇̃) stress pattern 3[3]

  1. (usually in the plural) hair[4]
    kirpti / pinti plaukus - to cut / to plait hairs

Declension

Declension of pláukas
singular
(vienaskaita) 		plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) pláukas plaukai̇̃
genitive (kilmininkas) pláuko plaukų̃
dative (naudininkas) pláukui plaukáms
accusative (galininkas) pláuką pláukus
instrumental (įnagininkas) pláuku plaukai̇̃s
locative (vietininkas) plaukè plaukuosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) pláuke plaukai̇̃

See also

References

  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “pláukas”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego‎[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 469
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “plaukas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362
  3. ^ “plaukas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025
  4. ^ “plaukas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
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