gatvė

See also: gatve and gatvę

Lithuanian

Alternative forms
  • (abbreviations) g., (dated) g-vė

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German gāte + -vė,[1] from Proto-Germanic *gatwǭ (“street, passage”). Compare Latvian gate, gatva, gatve.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [ˈɡaːtʲʋʲeː]

Noun

gãtvė f (plural gãtvės) stress pattern 2

  1. street
  2. (regional) drove (road or track along which cattle are habitually driven)

Declension
Declension of gãtvė
singular (vienaskaita) plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas) gãtvė gãtvės
genitive (kilmininkas) gãtvės gãtvių
dative (naudininkas) gãtvei gãtvėms
accusative (galininkas) gãtvę gatvès
instrumental (įnagininkas) gatvè gãtvėmis
locative (vietininkas) gãtvėje gãtvėse
vocative (šauksmininkas) gãtve gãtvės

See also

References
  1. Wojciech Smoczyński (2018) “gãtvė”, in Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary, Berlin, Germany: Peter Lang, →DOI, →ISBN, page 161
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