siauras

Lithuanian

Siaura gatvelė - A narrow alley

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian šàurs (narrow), with further origin disputed:

  • According to Derksen and Smoczynski, the words could be from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁-ro-,[1] from *sewh₁- (to squeeze, press) (which Derksen gives as *seu-); compare Sanskrit सुनोति (sunoti, to press).[2]
  • According to Karulis, the words could be from *sewh₁- (to bend; to cut; to drive, press), with semantic shift “bent (inward), concave” > “narrow”; compare Sanskrit सुवति (suvati, to impel, set in motion).[3]

Adjective

siaũras m (feminine siaurà) stress pattern 4

  1. narrow, tight
    Synonym: añkštas (tight (about clothes, etc.))
    Antonym: platus (wide)

Declension

References

  1. Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “siauras”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, pages 545-6
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015) “siauras”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 396
  3. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “šaurs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), volume 2, Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN, page 343

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