amalas

Asturian

Verb

amalas

  1. second-person singular present subjunctive of amalar

Lithuanian
Amalas (1) - Mistletoe
Amalas (2) - Heat lightning
Amalas (3) - Aphids
Amalas (4) - Blight

Alternative forms
  • ẽmalas

Etymology

Cognate to Latvian amuols, ãmulis, Old Prussian emelno (“mistletoe”), Proto-Slavic *emela (“mistletoe”).[1][2][3]

Plausibly a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈaːmɐlɐs/

Noun

ãmalas m (plural amalaĩ) stress pattern 3b

  1. mistletoe
    amalo šakelė ― a sprig of mistletoe
  2. heat lightning
  3. Alternative form of ãmaras (“aphid; the plant disease of being affected by aphids”)
  4. blight, rust (as a crop disease likened to heat lightning)
    Synonym: rūdys

Declension
Declension of ãmalas
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) ãmalas amalaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas) ãmalo amalų̃
dative (naudininkas) ãmalui amaláms
accusative (galininkas) ãmalą ãmalus
instrumental (įnagininkas) ãmalu amalaĩs
locative (vietininkas) amalè amaluosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) ãmale amalaĩ

See also
  • laumės šluota (literally “fairy's (witch's) broom”)

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “amalas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 54
  2. “amalas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
  3. “amalas” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 26 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).

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

Spanish

Verb

amalas

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of amar combined with las
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