alavas

Lithuanian
alavas

Etymology

The native cognate álvas was displaced by a borrowing from Russian о́лово (ólovo, “tin”). Compare Latvian al̂va (“tin”), Old Prussian alwis (“lead”). Formal discrepancies imply that this word is probably ultimately a non-Indo-European borrowing.[1]

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈaːlɐvɐs/

Noun

ãlavas m (uncountable) stress pattern 3

  1. tin (metallic element with chemical symbol Sn)

Declension
Declension of ãlavas
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) ãlavas alavaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas) ãlavo alavų̃
dative (naudininkas) ãlavui alaváms
accusative (galininkas) ãlavą ãlavus
instrumental (įnagininkas) ãlavu alavaĩs
locative (vietininkas) alavè alavuosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) ãlave alavaĩ

Derived terms
  • alavinis
  • alavuoti
  • alavuotojas

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53

Portuguese

Verb

alavas

  1. second-person singular imperfect indicative of alar
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