See also: karve

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kárˀwāˀ (cow), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱorh₂-weh₂, from *ḱerh₂- (head, top; horn), with an irregular depalatalization of the *ḱ. Cognate with Old Prussian curwis (ox), Proto-Slavic *korva (cow), English hart; see the Proto-Slavic for more on the phonetic development.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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kárvė f (plural kárvės) stress pattern 1

  1. cow
  2. (figuratively) a slow person or animal

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “karvė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 230