kliepas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognates include Latvian klaips (โ€œloafโ€), and possibly Proto-Germanic *hlaibaz (English loaf, Gothic ๐Œท๐Œป๐Œฐ๐Œน๐Œฑ๐ƒ (hlaibs), ๐Œท๐Œป๐Œฐ๐Œน๐†๐ƒ (hlaifs, โ€œbreadโ€) (whence Proto-Slavic *xlฤ›bัŠ (โ€œbreadโ€))). Possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kสทel- (โ€œto turn, moveโ€) nominalized to mean "disk, wheel, circle" (from the same root also Latvian kakls (โ€œneck; throatโ€)) because historically bread was a round, thin, hard flatbread. From the zero-grade Proto-Indo-European *kสทl-eyp- : *kสทl-oyp- > Proto-Baltic *kleip- : *klaip- whence the two Baltic terms.

Noun

kliepas

  1. loaf
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