Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Old Prussian sawayte,[1] itself borrowed from Polish sobota (Saturday).[2] Modern Lithuanian thus has a completely different word for "week" from Latvian, where a Slavic borrowing, nedēļa, is used, although compare obsolete Lithuanian nedėlia.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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saváitė f (plural saváitės) stress pattern 1

  1. week
    Synonym: (obsolete) nedėlia

Declension

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Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ https://web.archive.org/web/20120103230254/http://ualgiman.dtiltas.lt/skoliniai.html
  2. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “saváitė”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 537