łełs
Sudovian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Baltic [Term?]. Compare Latvian liẽls, dialectal Lithuanian liẽlas (likely Latvianism), however Lithuanian dìdelis (“big”), Old Prussian debica (“big”).[1]
Adjective edit
łełſ
- large, big
- Antonym: maz (“small”)
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 130, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
References edit
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, number 1, page 75: “łełſ ’didelis, l. wiełki’ 130.”