siauras

Lithuanian

Siaura gatvelė - A narrow alley

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian šàurs (narrow).

  • According to Derksen, the words could be from Proto-Indo-European *sewh₁- (to squeeze, press) (which Derksen gives as *seu-), as in Sanskrit सुनोति (sunoti, to press).
  • According to Karulis, the words could be from *sew- (to bend, to cut, to drive), with semantic derivation from “bent (inward), concave” to “narrow.”

Adjective

siaũras m (feminine siaurà) stress pattern 4

  1. narrow, tight
    Synonym: añkštas (tight (about clothes, etc.))
    Antonym: platus (wide)

Declension

Further reading

  • siauras”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2023
  • Derksen, Rick (2015), “siauras”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 396
  • Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), šaurs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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