vanduo

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wandō (genitive singular *undnes); compare Latvian ûdens, Old Prussian wundan, Proto-Slavic *vodà. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥. The nasal infix is paralleled in Latin unda (“wave”), presumably analogically brought into the nominative from the oblique stem (cf. Proto-Indo-European genitive singular *udnés). The paradigm would then subsequently have been put back in line with other en-stem nouns (e.g. akmuõ).^[1]

Clusters of the shape *nCn apparently blocked the action of Winter's law; compare also ugni̇̀s.

• IPA^(key): /ʋɐnˈdʊɔ/

vanduõ m (plural vándenys) stress pattern 3a

1. water (the substance; the surface of a body of water)

   Ar̃ gãlima gérti vándenį i̇̀š čiáupo? - Can you drink water out of the taps?

   Čià gãlima atvỹkti vándeniu, óru ir žemè. - You can get here by air, land and sea.

2. current, flow (of water)

   Čiukšė́damas plaũkia priẽš vándenį nedi̇̀delis gárlaivis - A small steamboat splashes along against the current.

• ūdra
• audra (possibly)

• “vanduo”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2025