See also: Bernas

French edit

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): /bɛʁ.na/, /bɛʁ.nɑ/
  • (file)

Verb edit

bernas

  1. second-person singular past historic of berner

Lithuanian edit

Etymology edit

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-n-o-, from *bʰer- (to bear). Synchronologically equivalent to ber̃ti +‎ -nas. Cognate with Latvian bȩ̄̀rns (child), Proto-Germanic *barną (child).

Noun edit

bérnas m (plural bernaĩ) stress pattern 3 [1]

  1. lad
  2. servant

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References edit

  1. ^ “bernas” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “bernas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 88
  • “bernas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN