Latvian

Noun

danga f (4th declension)

1. (dialectal) corner

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Synonyms

• kakts, stūris

References

1. ↑ Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 15504 6, page 114

Lithuanian

Etymology

• From Proto-Balto-Slavic *dangaʔ^[1]. Cognate with Latvian danga ‎(“corner”)^[1], Serbo-Croatian ду́га/dúga ‎(“rainbow”)^[1]. See also dangùs ‎(“sky”).

Noun

dangà f ‎(plural dañgos) stress pattern 4 ^[2]

1. clothes
2. something covering another thing; cover^[3]

   sniẽgo dangà^[2] - lying snow

Declension

Synonyms

• (clothes): apdaras, drabužis, rūbas
• (cover): apdangalas, uždanga

Related terms

(Verb)

• dengti

References

1. 1 2 3 Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 15504 6, page 114
2. 1 2 “danga” in Juozas Balčikonis [et al.] (1954), Dabartinės lietuvių kalbos žodynas. Vilnius: Valstybinė politinės ir mokslinės literatūros leidykla.
3. ↑ “danga” in Victoria Martsinkyavitshute (2012), Hippocrene Concise Dictionary: Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian, Seventh printing. New York: Hippocrene Books. ISBN 978-0-7818-0151-5