druska

Lithuanian

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰrews-k-eh₂-, from *dʰrews- (“to break into pieces”), which appears to be related to Proto-Indo-European *dʰrā́ks (“dregs, sediment”). Cognate with Latvian druska (“crumbs”), Old Prussian dmskins (“earwax”); outside of Baltic, compare Proto-Germanic *drōhsnō (“dregs”), Welsh dryll (“piece, lump”).^[1]

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druskà f (uncountable) stress pattern 2^[2]^[3]^[4]

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^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “druska”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 142
^ “druska”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
^ Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
^ Buck, C. D. (2008). A Dictionary of Selected Synonyms in the Principal Indo-European Languages. United States: University of Chicago Press, p. 380