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Drugys

Etymology edit

Proto-Balto-Slavic *drugā́ˀtei, reflecting Proto-Indo-European *dʰrewg-/*dʰrewgʰ- (to shake off, to drain).

Compare some Slavic languages (Polish drgać (to tremble),[1] dreszcz (shudder),[2] Russian дрожь (drožʹ, shivering)[2]).

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Noun edit

drugỹs m (plural drugiaĩ) stress pattern 4

  1. malaria, fever[3]
  2. butterfly[3]
  3. moth[3]

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References edit

  1. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “drgać”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 97
  2. 2.0 2.1 “*drъžь” in Rick Derksen (2008), Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon. Brill: Leiden-Boston.
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN