vanduo

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *wandō (genitive singular *undnes); compare Latvian ûdens, Old Prussian wundan, Proto-Slavic *vodà. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥. The nasal infix is parallelled in Latin unda (“wave”), presumably analogically brought into the nominative from the oblique stem (cf. Proto-Indo-European genitive singular *udnés). The paradigm would then subsequently have been put back in line with other en-stem nouns (e.g. akmuõ).[1]

Clusters of the shape *nCn apparently blocked the action of Winter's law; confer also ugnìs.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ʋɐnˈdʊɔ/

Noun

vanduõ m (plural vándenys) stress pattern 3a

  1. water (the substance; the surface of a body of water)
    Ar̃ gãlima gérti vándenį ìš čiáupo? - Can you drink water out of the taps?
    Čià gãlima atvỹkti vándeniu, óru ir žemè. - You can get here by air, land and sea.
  2. current, flow (of water)
    Čiukšė́damas, plaũkia priẽš vándenį nedìdelis gárlaivis - A small steamboat splashes along against the current.

Declension
declension of vanduo
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) vanduõ vándenys
genitive (kilmininkas) vandeñs vandenų̃
dative (naudininkas) vándeniui vandenìms
accusative (galininkas) vándenį vándenis
instrumental (įnagininkas) vándeniu vandenimìs
locative (vietininkas) vandenyjè vandenysè
vocative (šauksmininkas) vandeniẽ vándenys

Derived terms
terms derived from vanduo
  • vandensraigtis
  • vandensvydis
  • vandentakis
  • vandentiekininkas
  • vandentiekis
  • vandenvietė
  • vandenženklis
  • angliavandenis
  • vaisvandeniai

References
  1. Derksen, Rick (2015) Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488

Further reading
  • vanduo in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas, lkz.lt
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