sidabras

Lithuanian

Etymology

A wanderword from a non-Indo-European language, perhaps originally substrate. Compare Latvian sidrabs, Proto-Slavic *sьrebro.[1]

Noun

sidãbras m (uncountable) stress pattern 2

  1. silver
  2. (heraldry) argent

Declension
    Declension of sidabras
nominative sidabras
genitive sidabro
dative sidabrui
accusative sidabrą
instrumental sidabru
locative sidabre
vocative sidabre

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “sidabras”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 396
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