paukštis

Lithuanian

Alternative forms

  • (dialectal) paukštė

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *put-, *pout-; compare Latvian putns < *put-inas (compare Lithuanian dialectal pùtinas (rooster)); Proto-Slavic *pъtákъ. The Lithuanian form can be explained as o-grade *pout- + -tis, with a prothetic -k-. For similar examples, compare šaukštas (spoon) < *šaud-tas, krikstas (baptism) < *krist-, pūkšlė (hives) < *pūt-slė.

A connection with Proto-Indo-European *put- (child, young); compare Latin putus (boy), Sanskrit पुत्र​ (putrá-, son, young of an animal), पोत (póta​, young of an animal), Avestan 𐬞𐬎𐬚𐬭𐬀 (puϑra-, son); means that the Balto-Slavic term must originally have meant "chick", compare dialectal paũtas (egg), putýtis (chick).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈpɒʊk.ʃtʲɪs/

Noun

paũkštis m (plural paũkščiai) stress pattern 2

  1. bird (any animal of the subclass (formerlyy usually class) Aves)
  2. (colloquial) a cunning, untrustworthy person

Declension

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References

  1. Wojciech Smoczyński (1990) 'Etimologijos pastabos' [Notes on Etymology], Baltistica, Volume 26, No. 2, pages 163-164.
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