łełs
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Sudovian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Baltic [Term?]. Compare Latvian liẽls, dialectal Lithuanian liẽlas (likely Latvianism), however Lithuanian dìdelis (“big”), Old Prussian debica (“big”).[1]
Adjective[edit]
łełſ
- large, big
- Antonym: maz (“small”)
- “Pagan dialects from Narew” line 130, (copied by V. Zinov, 1983):
References[edit]
- ^ Zigmas Zinkevičius (1985) “Lenkų-jotvingių žodynėlis? [A Polish-Yotvingian dictionary?]”, in Baltistica, volume 21, number 1 (in Lithuanian), Vilnius: VU, , page 75: “łełſ ’didelis, l. wiełki’ 130.”