plaukas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian plaûki (fibres, flakes, dust (Livonian) hair), possibly Sudovian laugi (hair).

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Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈpɫä̂ˑʊ̯kɐs̪]

Noun

pláukas m (plural plaukaĩ) stress pattern 3

  1. (usually in the plural) hair[1]
    kirpti / pinti plaukus - to cut / to plait hairs

Declension

See also

References

  1. “plaukas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN

Further reading

  • plaukas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “plaukas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 362
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