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laũkas m ‎(plural laukaĩ) stress pattern 4

field (land area free of woodland, settlements; land used for agriculture, grazing)
outside, the outdoors
an area notable for a certain property or occurrence

mū̃šio laũkas - battlefield

(geography) lẽdo laũkas - icefield
(military, in the genitive) field (which happens in, or is suitable for, deployment or combat situations)
(physics) field (the area affected by a force or other physical phenomenon)
magnètinis laũkas - magnetic field

declension of laukas

terms derived from laukas

Cognate with Latvian lauks and Old Prussian laukinikis ‎(“landowner”), from Proto-Indo-European *lówkos ‎(“bright place, clearing”); compare Proto-Germanic *lauhaz ‎(“meadow, grove”) (Old English lēah ‎(“clearing”), English lea), Latin lūcus ‎(“sacred grove”) and Sanskrit लोक ‎(loká-, “free space, world”). Apparently from Proto-Indo-European *lewk- ‎(“bright”); compare Old Prussian luckis, Proto-Slavic *lúčь ‎(“ray of light”) and Latin lūx ‎(“light”).

A similar semantic progression can be observed in aiškus ‎(“clear, bright”) > aikštė ‎(“clearing, open space”).