łełs

łełs

Sudovian

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic [Term?]. Compare Latvian liẽls, dialectal Lithuanian liẽlas (likely Latvianism), however Lithuanian dìdelis (“big”), Old Prussian debica (“big”).[1]

Adjective

łełſ

1. large, big
   • “Pogańske gwary z Narewu” line 130, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):

     wiełki [wielki] — łełſ

     large

   Antonym: maz (“small”)

References

1. Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985), “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica (in Lithuanian), volume 21, issue 1, page 75: “łełſ ’didelis, l. wiełki’ 130.”