pietūs
Lithuanian edit
Etymology edit
Cognate with Proto-Slavic *piťa (compare Old Polish pica (“fodder, victuals”)[1] and Russian пи́ща (píšča, “food”)), from Proto-Indo-European *peyt-. Cognate with Sanskrit पितु (pitú, “nourishment”) and Old Irish ith (“grain”).[2]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
piẽtūs m pl stress pattern 4 [3]
- (plural only) lunch, dinner (midday meal)[4]
- (plural only) noon, midday
- (plural only) south (compass point)[4]
Declension edit
declension of pietūs (plural-only)
Synonyms edit
- (noon): vidurdienis
Hypernyms edit
Hyponyms edit
- (meal): valgis
Coordinate terms edit
Derived terms edit
- (Verb) pietauti
References edit
- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “pica”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 405
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 401. →ISBN
- ^ “pietūs” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 “pietūs” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN