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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Declension of kárvė
singular
(vienaskaita)
plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) kárvė kárvės
genitive (kilmininkas) kárvės kárvių
dative (naudininkas) kárvei kárvėms
accusative (galininkas) kárvę kárves
instrumental (įnagininkas) kárve kárvėmis
locative (vietininkas) kárvėje kárvėse
vocative (šauksmininkas) kárve kárvės

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