smegenys

Lithuanian

Alternative forms
  • smagenės

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *masgen,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *mosgʰos.[1] The Eastern Baltic forms seem to have experienced metathesis. Cognate with Old Prussian musgeno,[1] Russian мозг (mozg)[1] and Old Icelandic mergr (“marrow”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈs̪ʲmʲæ̌ːɡʲɛn̪ʲiːs̪]

Noun

smẽgenys f pl stress pattern 3b [2]

  1. (anatomy, plural only) brain[3]

Declension
    Declension of smẽgenys (plural-only)
nominative smẽgenys
genitive smegenų̃
dative smegenìms
accusative smẽgenis
instrumental smegenimìs
locative smegenysè
vocative smẽgenys

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 328. →ISBN
  2. “smegenys” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  3. “smegenys” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
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