dažnas
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Lithuanian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly cognate with Latvian dažs (“some, many”), Old Prussian kudesnammi (“so often”). Further origin outside of Baltic unclear;[1] Mažiulis derives the word and its cognates from an unattested verb related to dė́ti (“to place, lay, put”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]dãžnas m (feminine dažnà) stress pattern 4
- frequent
- Antonym: retas (“rare”)
- dažnas lietus ― frequent rain
- many (with a singular noun)
- dažnas žmogus gyvena mieste ― many people live in a city (literally, “a frequent person lives in a city”)
- dažną dieną lyja ― many days, it rains (literally, “on a frequent day, it rains”)
Declension
[edit]Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of dažnas
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of dažnas
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “dãžnas”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 96
- ^ “dažnas”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012
Further reading
[edit]- “dažnas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024