bitė

See also: bite, Bite, bité, bitē, bǐtè, and bitę

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *bitē (compare Latvian bite), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰey-, *bʰī-. Cognate to English bee.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈbʲɪtʲeː]

Noun

bìtė f (plural bìtės) stress pattern 2

  1. bee

Declension

See also

References

  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 91-2
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