plauksta

Latvian

plaukstas

Etymology

Cognate with Russian плюсна́ (pljusná), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pl(j)ousk-. Pokorny compares Latin plautus (“flatfooted”), Latin plaudo (“I applaud”), Ancient Greek πλαίσιον (plaísion, “oblong case”), but a shared origin for all of these words is far from certain; possibly [1] Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”).

Noun

plauksta f (4th declension)

  1. hand
  2. palm (inner, concave part of hand)
    Synonym: delna

Declension

See also

References

  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “plauksta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 546
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) chapter 838, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 838
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