See also: egle, Egle, Eglė, and eglē

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *edlis, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁edʰ-l (spruce tree), potentially of substrate origin. Cognate with Latvian egle (spruce, fir), Old Prussian addle (spruce, fir), Proto-Slavic *ȅdlь (spruce), Latin ebulum (danewort).[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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ẽglė f (plural ẽglės) stress pattern 2

  1. spruce (tree from the genus Picea)

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “151”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page eglė

Further reading

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  • Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 139
  • “eglė” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.