bernas

See also: Bernas

French

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /bɛʁ.na/

Verb

bernas

  1. second-person singular past historic of berner

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰer-n-o-, from *bʰer- (to bear). Equivalent to ber̃ti + -nas. Cognate with Latvian bȩ̄̀rns (child), Proto-Germanic *barną (child).

Noun

bérnas m (plural bernaĩ) stress pattern 3 [1]

  1. lad
  2. servant

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Derived terms

  • (diminutive nouns) bernelis, berniukas, bernužis, bernužėlis

References

  1. “bernas” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  • Derksen, Rick (2015), “bernas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 88
  • “bernas” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN
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