ławe

ławe

See also: lawe

Sudovian

Etymology

Borrowed from a Finnic language, from Proto-Finnic *laiva, in turn borrowed from Proto-Germanic *flawją. Compare Lithuanian laĩvė (“boat”), laĩvas (“ship”), Latvian laĩva (“boat”).[1][2]

Noun

ławe

1. boat
   • “Pogańske gwary z Narewu” line 95, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):

     lodź [łódź] — ławe

     boat

References

1. Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985), “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, issue 1, page 75: “ławe ‘valtis, laivas, l. lodź‘ 95.”
2. K. T. Witczak (2020), “Ugrofinizmy w języku jaćwieskim [Finno-Ugric borrowings in Yatvingian]”, in Acta Baltico-Slavica (in Polish), DOI:10.11649/abs.2020.008, page 152: “8. Jaćw. ławe ‘łódź’.”