laukas

See also: Laukas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian lauks and Old Prussian laukinikis (“landowner”), from Proto-Indo-European *lowkós (“bright place, clearing”); compare Proto-Germanic *lauhaz (“meadow, grove”) (Old English lēah (“clearing”), English lea), Latin lūcus (“sacred grove”) and Sanskrit लोक (loká-, “free space, world”).^[1] Apparently further derived from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- (“bright”); compare Old Prussian luckis, Proto-Slavic *lúčь (“ray of light”) and Latin lūx (“light”).

A similar semantic progression can be observed in aiškus (“clear, bright”) > aikštė (“clearing, open space”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɒʊ.kɐs/

Noun

laũkas m (plural laukaĩ) stress pattern 4

1. field (land area free of woodland, settlements; land used for agriculture, grazing)
2. outside, the outdoors
3. an area notable for a certain property or occurrence

   mū̃šio laũkas - battlefield

   (geography) lẽdo laũkas - icefield

4. (military, in the genitive) field (which happens in, or is suitable for, deployment or combat situations)
5. (physics) field (the area affected by a force or other physical phenomenon)

   magnètinis laũkas - magnetic field

Declension

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	laũkas	laukaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	laũko	laukų̃
dative (naudininkas)	laũkui	laukáms
accusative (galininkas)	laũką	laukùs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	laukù	laukaĩs
locative (vietininkas)	laukè	laukuosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	laũke	laukaĩ

Declension of laũkas

Derived terms

terms derived from laukas

• lauk
• lauke
• laukan
• laukelis
• laukinis
• laukinukas
• laukininkas
• laukymė

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “laukas I”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 275

Anagrams

• kaulas