taukai
Lithuanian edit
Etymology edit
- Plural of obsolete táukas, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *touʔkós, from Proto-Indo-European *touHk-o-,[1] likely from *tewk-. Cognate with Latvian tàuki and Old Prussian taukis;[1] further to Russian тук (tuk, “fat”), English thigh, and Old Irish tón.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
taukaĩ m pl stress pattern 3 [2]
Declension edit
declension of taukai (plural-only)
Hypernyms edit
- riebalai m pl
Related terms edit
- (verb) tukti
- (participle) nutukęs
Idioms edit
References edit
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 500. →ISBN
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 “taukai” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
- “taukai” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN