plaukas

Lithuanian

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plaukas

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian plaûki (“fibres, flakes, dust (Livonian) hair”), possibly Sudovian laugi (“hair”); further origin beyond Baltic unclear.^[1] Formally, the Baltic terms appear to be related to plaũkti (“to swim, float”), with hair being interpreted as "flowing" from a person's head. However, in addition to the semantics being tenuous, the accents of pláukas and plaũkti do not match.^[2]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpɫä̂ˑʊ̯kɐs̪]

Noun

pláukas m (plural plaukaĩ) stress pattern 3^[3]

(usually in the plural) hair^[4]
kirpti / pinti plaukus - to cut / to plait hairs

Declension

Declension of pláukas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	pláukas	plaukaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	pláuko	plaukų̃
dative (naudininkas)	pláukui	plaukáms
accusative (galininkas)	pláuką	pláukus
instrumental (įnagininkas)	pláuku	plaukaĩs
locative (vietininkas)	plaukè	plaukuosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	pláuke	plaukaĩ

References

^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “pláukas”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 469
^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “plaukas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362
^ “plaukas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
^ “plaukas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

[1] Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “pláukas”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego‎^[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 469

[2] Derksen, Rick (2015) “plaukas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362

[3] “plaukas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024

[4] “plaukas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

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