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Etymology edit

Proto-Balto-Slavic,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃-;[1] see gerklė (throat). Cognate with Polish gardło (throat)[1][2]

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Noun edit

gurklỹs m (plural gurkliaĩ) stress pattern 3 [3]

  1. (anatomy) crop, craw
  2. double chin
  3. neck (of a bottle etc.)

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  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden; Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 198. →ISBN
  2. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927), “gardło”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 135
  3. ^ “gurklys” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  • “gurklys” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN