tvirtas
Lithuanian edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *twírˀtas, from Proto-Indo-European *twerH-.[1] Cognate with Latvian tvirts[2] and Polish twardy (“solid”).[2][3] Derksen does not give a full PBS reconstruction for this term, only noting that "the Baltic and Slavic suffixes do not match."
Other cognates within Lithuanian:
- ãptvaras (“pen, enclosure”) < Proto-Indo-European *tworH-o-
- tvérti (“to seize”) < Proto-Indo-European *twerH-
- tvorà (“fence”) < Proto-Indo-European *twōrH-
- turėti (“to hold”) < Proto-Indo-European *turH-eh₁yé-
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
tvìrtas m (feminine tvirtà, neuter tvìrta) stress pattern 3 [2]
Declension edit
Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of tvirtas
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of tvirtas
Synonyms edit
Antonyms edit
Derived terms edit
(Adjectives)
(Nouns)
Related terms edit
- (Adverb) tvirtaĩ
(Verbs)
References edit
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- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Derksen, Rick (2008) “*tvьrdъ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 501
- ^ Brückner, Aleksander (1927) “twardy”, in Słownik etymologiczny języka polskiego [Etymological Dictionary of the Polish Language] (in Polish), Warsaw: Wiedza Powszechna, page 586
- ^ “tvirtas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN