dailė

Lithuanian

Etymology

Nominal derivative of dailùs (“refined, elegant”). Cognate with Latvian daile (“beautiful girl; art”).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

dailė̃ f (plural dai̇̃lės) stress pattern 4

  1. art
  2. the fine arts
  3. (dialectal) a work

Declension

Declension of dailė̃
singular
(vienaskaita) 		plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) dailė̃ dai̇̃lės
genitive (kilmininkas) dailė̃s dailių̃
dative (naudininkas) dai̇̃lei dailė́ms
accusative (galininkas) dai̇̃lę dailès
instrumental (įnagininkas) dailè dailėmi̇̀s
locative (vietininkas) dailėjè dailėsè
vocative (šauksmininkas) dai̇̃le dai̇̃lės

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “dailė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 111
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