varpas

Lithuanian

Etymology 1

Related to virpėti (“to tremble, quiver”), virpulys (“trembling”), as "something that trembles" > "(a struck) bell".

There is a cluster of Baltic words hypothesized to be related such as verpti (“to spin”), varpyti (“to dig, make holes”), Latvian virpēt (“to twist with a spindle; to shake”), Latvian virpulis (“whirlpool”).

See also perhaps Slovene vŕpati (“to turn, to grab, to ditch”), dialectal Russian верпеть (verpetʹ, “to spring”), Bulgarian върпина (vǎrpina, “pond, whirlpool”).

Noun

var̃pas m (plural varpaĩ) stress pattern 4

1. bell

Declension

Declension of var̃pas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	var̃pas	varpaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	var̃po	varpų̃
dative (naudininkas)	var̃pui	varpáms
accusative (galininkas)	var̃pą	varpùs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	varpù	varpaĩs
locative (vietininkas)	varpè	varpuosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	var̃pe	varpaĩ

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Noun

várpas

1. accusative plural of várpa