karvelis

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Lithuanian

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Etymology

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kárvė (cow) +‎ -elis (diminutive suffix), literally little cow,[1] from the practice of pigeons feeding crop milk to their young.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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karvẽlis m (plural karvẽliai) stress pattern 2

  1. pigeon

Declension

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See also

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References

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  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “karvẽlis”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 261
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “balandis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 78