gintaras

See also: Gintaras

Lithuanian

Gintaras

Etymology

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Cognate with Latvian dzintars.

Noun

giñtaras m (plural gintaraĩ) stress pattern 3b

1. amber (fossil resin)

Declension

Declension of giñtaras

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	giñtaras	gintaraĩ
genitive (kilmininkas)	giñtaro	gintarų̃
dative (naudininkas)	giñtarui	gintaráms
accusative (galininkas)	giñtarą	giñtarus
instrumental (įnagininkas)	giñtaru	gintaraĩs
locative (vietininkas)	gintarè	gintaruosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	giñtare	gintaraĩ

Descendants

• → Old Ruthenian: є҆нта́рь (je҆ntárʹ)
  • >? Belarusian: янта́р (jantár)
  • Carpathian Rusyn: янта́рь (jantárʹ)
  • Ukrainian: янта́р (jantár); я́нтра f (jántra) (dialectal)
• → Middle Russian: онта́рь (ontárʹ), оньта́рь (onʹtárʹ), ꙗнта́рь (jantárʹ)
  • Russian: янта́рь (jantárʹ)
    • →? Belarusian: янта́р (jantár)
    • → Czech: jantar
    • → Macedonian: јантар (jantar)
    • → Polish: jantar
    • → Serbo-Croatian:
      • Cyrillic script: јантар
      • Latin script: jantar
    • → Slovak: jantár
    • → Slovene: jantar

Further reading

• “gintaras”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• “gintaras”, in Lietuvių kalbos etimologinio žodyno duomenų bazė [Lithuanian etymological dictionary database], 2007–2012