gatvė

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See also: gatve and gatvę

Lithuanian[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Middle Low German gāte + -vė,[1] from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (street, passage). Compare Latvian gate, gatva, gatve.

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Noun[edit]

gãtvė f (plural gãtvės) stress pattern 2

  1. street
  2. (regional) drove (road or track along which cattle are habitually driven)

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “gãtvė”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 161