žala
Czech
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editžala
Lithuanian
editEtymology
editCognate with Latvian zàlba (“damage”), dialectal Russian назо́ла (nazóla, “anguish”). Possibly linked to Irish galar (“sickness”), or alternatively with the root of žãlias (“green”).
Noun
editžalà f (plural žãlos) stress pattern 4
Declension
editDeclension of žalà
singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
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nominative (vardininkas) | žalà | žãlos |
genitive (kilmininkas) | žalõs | žalų̃ |
dative (naudininkas) | žãlai | žalóms |
accusative (galininkas) | žãlą | žalàs |
instrumental (įnagininkas) | žalà | žalomìs |
locative (vietininkas) | žalojè | žalosè |
vocative (šauksmininkas) | žãla | žãlos |
Interjection
editžalà
- what a pity
- Synonym: gaila
References
edit- “žala”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
- Derksen, Rick (2015) “žala”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 511
- Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “назо́ла”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Serbo-Croatian
editNoun
editžala (Cyrillic spelling жала)