mudrus

Lithuanian

Alternative forms
  • mūdrùs

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian mudrs (“quick, lively, cheerful”). From Proto-Indo-European *mud-rós (“happy, cheerful”), from the root *mewd- (“to become happy”),[1][2][3] whence also Sanskrit मुद्र (mudrá, “joyous, glad”).

Adjective

mudrùs m (feminine mudrì, neuter mudrù) stress pattern 4

  1. nimble, agile, swift, quick
    Synonyms: šaunùs, guvùs, žvalùs
  2. alert, vigilant
    Synonyms: akýlas, budrùs
  3. fancy, elaborate, elegant, beautiful
    Synonyms: prašmatnùs, puošnùs, elegántiškas
  4. arrogant, haughty, proud
    Synonym: išdidùs

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

  • mudrastis
  • mudrystà
  • mudrỹstė, mūdrỹstė
  • mudrùmas
  • mū́drauti, mūdráuti
  • mùdras, mū̃dras

References
  1. Rix, Helmut, editor (2001), “*meu̯d-”, in Lexikon der indogermanischen Verben [Lexicon of Indo-European Verbs] (in German), 2nd edition, Wiesbaden: Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, →ISBN, page 443
  2. “mudrùs” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 772–773 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
  3. Derksen, Rick (2015) “mudrus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 325

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