šķirklis

Latvian

FWOTD – 19 May 2014

Etymology

A neologism coined in the 1940s by J. Endzelīns from šķir(t) (to split, to separate, to divide, to divorce) + -klis.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ʃcīɾklis]

Noun

šķirklis m (2nd declension)

  1. entry (an article in a dictionary, where a given word is explained and exemplified)
    šķirkļa vārdsheadword (lit. entry word)
    vārdnīcai ir 64 000 šķirkļuthe dictionary has 64 000 entries

Declension

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), šķirklis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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