gervė

Lithuanian

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gerˀ(ō)was, from Proto-Indo-European *gerh₂- (“to cry hoarsely; crane”). Cognate with Proto-Slavic *žeravъ (“crane (bird)”).^[1]

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gérvė f (plural gérvės) stress pattern 1

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^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “gervė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 172-3