amalas

amalas

Asturian

Verb

amalas

1. second-person singular present subjunctive of amalar

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Lithuanian

Amalas (1) - Mistletoe

Amalas (2) - Heat lightning

Amalas (3) - Aphids

Amalas (4) - Blight

Alternative forms

• ẽmalas

Etymology

Cognate to Latvian amuols, ãmulis, Old Prussian emelno (“mistletoe”), Proto-Slavic *emela (“mistletoe”).[1][2][3]

Plausibly a borrowing from a non-Indo-European language.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈaːmɐlɐs/

Noun

ãmalas m (plural amalaĩ) stress pattern 3^b

1. mistletoe

   amalo šakelė ― a sprig of mistletoe

2. heat lightning
3. Alternative form of ãmaras (“aphid; the plant disease of being affected by aphids”)
4. blight, rust (as a crop disease likened to heat lightning)

   Synonym: rūdys

Declension

declension of amalas

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	ãmalas	amalaĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	ãmalo	amalų̃
dative (naudininkas)	ãmalui	amaláms
accusative (galininkas)	ãmalą	ãmalus
instrumental (įnagininkas)	ãmalu	amalaĩs
locative (vietininkas)	amalè	amaluosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	ãmale	amalaĩ

See also

• laumės šluota (literally “fairy's (witch's) broom”)

References

1. Derksen, Rick (2015), “amalas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 54
2. “amalas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
3. “amalas” in Hock et al., Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch 2.0 (online, 2020–); p. 26 in ALEW 1.1 (online, 2019).

Further reading

• “amalas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
• “amalas”, in Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of contemporary Lithuanian], ekalba.lt, 1954–2023