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miškas

miškas

Lithuanian

Noun

mìškas m ‎(plural miškaĩ) stress pattern 4 [2]

  1. forest (dense collection of trees)
  2. (dialectal) wood or timber used for building

Declension

Synonyms

  • (forest): giria; (dialectal, Southern Aukštaitian) mẽdžias

Hyponyms

Derived terms

  • miškelis
  • miškinis
  • miškingas
  • miškininkas
  • miškakirtys

References

  1. ↑ Beekes, Robert S. P. (2010) Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 10), volume II, with the assistance of Lucien van Beek, Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 958
  2. ↑ “miškas” in Juozas Balčikonis [et al.] (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.

Etymology

Unclear. While the dialectal term mẽdžias ‎(“forest”) is cognate with Latvian mežs ‎(“forest”) and thus from Proto-Balto-Slavic *medja- ‎(“boundary”) (compare Old Prussian median ‎(“forest”), Russian межа́ ‎(mežá, “boundary-strip”), Czech meze ‎(“between”)), mìškas cannot be connected with such certainty on phonetic grounds.

A connection with Ancient Greek μίσχος ‎(mískhos, “stalk of a flower or leaf”) and μίσκος ‎(mískos, “pod, shell”) is difficult semantically, unless we posit an original meaning of "trunk, bar" for the Lithuanian word.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈmɪʂ.kɐs/

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