dangus

See also: dangūs

Javanese

Romanization

dangus

  1. romanization of ꦢꦔꦸꦱ꧀

Lithuanian

Etymology

Perhaps a substantivised adjectival derivative of deñgti (to cover) in -ùs, originally meaning "covering".[1] Cognate with Old Prussian dangus (sky, heaven); see also dangà (cover), a nominal derivative of the same root.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /dɐŋˈɡʊs/

Noun

dangùs m (plural dañgūs) stress pattern 4

  1. sky
  2. (religion) heaven
  3. (dialectal) the top of the inside of a furnace

Declension

Declension of dangùs
singular
(vienaskaita)
plural
(daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) dangùs dañgūs
genitive (kilmininkas) dangaũs dangų̃
dative (naudininkas) dañgui dangùms
accusative (galininkas) dañgų dangùs
instrumental (įnagininkas) dangumi̇̀ dangumi̇̀s
locative (vietininkas) dangujè danguosè
vocative (šauksmininkas) dangaũ dañgūs

Synonyms

Derived terms

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “dangus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 115

Old Prussian

Etymology

Cognate with Lithuanian dangus.

Noun

dangus

  1. sky, heaven
  2. (anatomy) palate

References

  • Mažiulis, Vytautas (1988–1997) “dangus”, in Prūsų kalbos etimologijos žodynas [Etymological dictionary of Old Prussian]‎[1] (in Lithuanian), Vilnius
  • G. H. F. Nesselmann (1873) “dangus”, in Thesaurus linguae prussicae. Der preussische Vocabelvorrath [...] (in German), Berlin: Ferd. Dümmlers Verlagsbuchhandlung; Harrwitz & Gossmann, page 27