uodas
Lithuanian
Etymology
Cognate with Latvian ods, from Proto-Baltic *uodas.[1] Further etymology uncertain, but it may be linked with either Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to bite”) or an o-grade of *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Alternatively, may be cognate with Slavic words for “gadfly” (Czech ovád, Polish owad, Serbo-Croatian ȍbād / о̏ба̄д, Slovene obàd), but these may be from a Slavic formation *ob-vadъ rather than older Balto-Slavic.[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈûə̯.d̪ɐs̪]
Noun
úodas m stress pattern 3
Inflection
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | úodas | uodai̇̃ |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | úodo | uodų̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | úodui | uodáms |
| accusative (galininkas) | úodą | úodus |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | úodu | uodai̇̃s |
| locative (vietininkas) | uodè | uoduosè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | úode | uodai̇̃ |
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ods”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary][1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “uodas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 480