piršys

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pírˀśis.[1] Cognate with Polish pierś (“chest, breasts”).

Noun

pìršys f pl stress pattern 1

  1. chest (of a horse)
  2. (humorous) breasts (of a woman)

Declension
    Declension of pìršys (plural-only)
nominative pìršys
genitive pìršių
dative pìršims
accusative pìršis
instrumental pìršimis
locative pìršyse
vocative pìršys

Hypernyms

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) “piršys”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 358

Further reading
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