nugara

See also: nugarą

Lithuanian
Nugara

Etymology

Compare Latvian mugura. The "m"/"n" sound change is irregular. Further etymology unclear.

These words have been compared to Proto-Slavic *mogyla (“mound”), as words for "back" are often related to landscape terms. However, this connection could only hold if the Baltic and Slavic terms are independently borrowed from a common substrate language, since regular sound changes are not observed.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈn̪ʊɡɐrɐ]

Noun

nùgara f (plural nùgaros) stress pattern 1 [2]

  1. (anatomy) back[3]
    nùgaros skaũsmas - back pain

Declension
Declension of nùgara
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) nùgara nùgaros
genitive (kilmininkas) nùgaros nùgarų
dative (naudininkas) nùgarai nùgaroms
accusative (galininkas) nùgarą nùgaras
instrumental (įnagininkas) nùgara nùgaromis
locative (vietininkas) nùgaroje nùgarose
vocative (šauksmininkas) nùgara nùgaros

Derived terms

(Nouns)

References
  1. “nùgara” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 817 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).
  2. “nugara” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  3. “nugara” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Further reading
  • “nugara”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • “nugara”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2024
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