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smegenys

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Lithuanian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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A variant of dialectal smãgenys (brain, marrow, gum),[1] from Proto-Balto-Slavic *masgen (brain, marrow).[2] The Eastern Baltic forms seem to have experienced metathesis. Cognate with Old Prussian musgeno, Russian мозг (mozg), and Old Icelandic mergr (marrow).[3]

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [ˈs̪ʲmʲæ̌ːɡʲɛn̪ʲiːs̪]

Noun

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smẽgenys f pl stress pattern 3b [4]

  1. (anatomy, plural only) brain[5]

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “smegenys”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 414
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “smagenys”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 413
  3. ^ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 328. →ISBN
  4. ^ “smegenys” in Balčikonis, Juozas et al. (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
  5. ^ “smegenys” in Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria (1993), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian. New York: Hippocrene Books. →ISBN