sniegas
Lithuanian
Sniegas
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *snáigas,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *snóygʷʰos. Compare Old Church Slavonic снѣгъ (sněgŭ).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sʲnʲjæɡɐs]
Noun
sniẽgas m (plural sniegaĩ) stress pattern 4
- snow
Declension
declension of sniegas
| singular (vienaskaita) | plural (daugiskaita) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (vardininkas) | sniẽgas | sniegaĩ |
| genitive (kilmininkas) | sniẽgo | sniegų̃ |
| dative (naudininkas) | sniẽgui | sniegáms |
| accusative (galininkas) | sniẽgą | sniegùs |
| instrumental (įnagininkas) | sniegù | sniegaĩs |
| locative (vietininkas) | sniegè | snieguosè |
| vocative (šauksmininkas) | sniẽge | sniegaĩ |
Related terms
- snigti
References
- Kim, Ronald (2018), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European, Berlin: de Gruyter