varpas
Appearance
Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology 1
[edit]Related to virpėti (“to tremble, quiver”), virpulys (“trembling”), as "something that trembles" > "(a struck) bell".[1]
There is a cluster of Baltic words hypothesized to be related such as verpti (“to spin”), varpyti (“to dig, make holes”), Latvian virpēt (“to twist with a spindle; to shake”), Latvian virpulis (“whirlpool”).
See also perhaps Slovene vŕpati (“to turn, to grab, to ditch”), dialectal Russian верпеть (verpetʹ, “to spring”), Bulgarian върпина (vǎrpina, “pond, whirlpool”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]var̃pas m (plural varpaĩ) stress pattern 4
Declension
[edit]Declension of var̃pas
singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
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nominative (vardininkas) | var̃pas | varpaĩ |
genitive (kilmininkas) | var̃po | varpų̃ |
dative (naudininkas) | var̃pui | varpáms |
accusative (galininkas) | var̃pą | varpùs |
instrumental (įnagininkas) | varpù | varpaĩs |
locative (vietininkas) | varpè | varpuosè |
vocative (šauksmininkas) | var̃pe | varpaĩ |
Etymology 2
[edit]See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]várpas
References
[edit]- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “var̃pas”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 723