plaukas
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Etymology
Cognate with Latvian plaûki (“fibres, flakes, dust (Livonian) hair”), possibly Sudovian laugi (“hair”); further origin beyond Baltic unclear.[1] Formally, the Baltic terms appear to be related to plaũkti (“to swim, float”), with hair being interpreted as "flowing" from a person's head. However, in addition to the semantics being tenuous, the accents of pláukas and plaũkti do not match.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
pláukas m (plural plaukaĩ) stress pattern 3[3]
Declension
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | pláukas | plaukaĩ |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | pláuko | plaukų̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | pláukui | plaukáms |
| accusative (galininkas) | pláuką | pláukus |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | pláuku | plaukaĩs |
| locative (vietininkas) | plaukè | plaukuosè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | pláuke | plaukaĩ |
Declension of pláukas
See also
References
- Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “pláukas”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 469
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “plaukas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362
- “plaukas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- “plaukas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
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