tinklas

Lithuanian

Tinklas

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian tìkls (“net”), Old Prussian sasintinklo (“hare net”), Proto-Slavic *teneto (“net, snare”). From Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch”). Compare Sanskrit तन्त्र (tantra, “loom”).

Noun

tiñklas m (plural tiñklai) stress pattern 2

  1. net
  2. network

Declension

References

  • “tinklas”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
  • Derksen, Rick (2015) “tinklas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 467
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