uodas

Lithuanian

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian ods, from Proto-Baltic *uodas.[1] Further etymology uncertain, but it may be linked with either Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to bite”) or an o-grade of *h₁ed- (“to eat”). Alternatively, may be cognate with Slavic words for “gadfly” (Czech ovád, Polish owad, Serbo-Croatian ȍbād / о̏ба̄д, Slovene obàd), but these may be from a Slavic formation *ob-vadъ rather than older Balto-Slavic.[2]

Noun

úodas m stress pattern 3

  1. mosquito

Inflection

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References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ods”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
  2. Derksen, Rick (2015) “uodas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 480
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