See also: lasas, läsas, and låsas

Lithuanian edit

 Lašas on Lithuanian Wikipedia
 
Vandens lašas (1) - Drop of water

Etymology edit

Cognate with Latvian làse (drop). Further etymology unclear, but often compared with lašišà (salmon); see Latvian lasis (salmon; (dialectal) drop) for more.[1][2] A possible connection with dialectal Russian ла́са (lása, shiny spot), лоса́ (losá, sunlit surface of water) remains vague.[3]

Noun edit

lãšas m (plural lašaĩ) stress pattern 4 (diminutive lašẽlis)

  1. drop[4]
  2. bit[4]

Declension edit

Derived terms edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “lašas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 274
  2. ^ The template Template:R:lt:ALEW does not use the parameter(s):
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  3. ^ lãšas” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 646 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
  4. 4.0 4.1 Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Further reading edit

  • lašas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • lašas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024