klevas
Lithuanian
Etymology
Cognate with Latvian kļava (“maple”). Outside of Baltic, likely related to Proto-Slavic *klȅnъ (“maple”) (< *kle-nos), Proto-Germanic *hluniz (“maple”) (whence Old Norse hlynr (“maple”)); if inherited rather than borrowed, then the Baltic form traces back to a Proto-Indo-European *kle-wos.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
klẽvas m (plural klevai̇̃) stress pattern 4
Declension
| singular (vienaskaita) |
plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | klẽvas | klevai̇̃ |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | klẽvo | klevų̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | klẽvui | kleváms |
| accusative (galininkas) | klẽvą | klevùs |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | klevù | klevai̇̃s |
| locative (vietininkas) | klevè | klevuosè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | klẽve | klevai̇̃ |
References
- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007), “klẽvas”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language][1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Vilnius University, page 297