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Etymology edit

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *nisdá,[1] from Indo-European *ni-sd-óm.[1]

In Eastern Baltic languages the anlaut *n changed into *l.. Cognate with Latvian ligzda, Polish gniazdo,[1][2] Old English nest,[1] Latin nīdus (abode)[1] and Sanskrit नीड (nīḍá-).[1]

Pronunciation edit

  • IPA(key): [ˈlʲɪz̪d̪ɐs̪]

Noun edit

lìzdas m (plural lizdaĩ) stress pattern 4 [3]

  1. (of birds, bugs etc.) nest
    šarkos/varnos lizdas[3] - a magpie's/crow's nest
    bičių/širšių/vapsvų lizdas - a bee/hornet/wasp nest
  2. (figuratively, of louts etc.) nest

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References edit

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 169. →ISBN
  2. ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “gniazdo”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 146
  3. 3.0 3.1 “lizdas” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  • “lizdas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN