šķirklis

Latvian

FWOTD – 19 May 2014

Etymology

A neologism coined in the 1940s by Jānis Endzelīns from šķir(t) (“to split, to separate, to divide, to divorce”) +‎ -klis.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃcīɾklis]

Noun

šķirklis m (2nd declension)

  1. entry (an article in a dictionary, where a given word is explained and exemplified)
    šķirkļa vārds ― headword (lit. entry word)
    vārdnīcai ir 64 000 šķirkļu ― the dictionary has 64 000 entries

Declension

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “šķirklis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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