#baltic languages

[unhonestlymirror]

In Lithuanian language, one can say "You must not sleep" with one word - "tenemiega".

The following structure is:

Te- particle prefix, expressing command or a wish

-ne- negation prefix

-miega - 3rd person both Singular and Plural Present Tense.

Similar words are:

Tebūnie - "Let it go", "Let it be so". Tebūnie šviesa - "Let there be light".

Teneateina - "Don't come here"

Tenesilpsta rankos - "Don't give up" - literally "Let the hands not weaken".

Tenebijo - "Be not afraid".

Tenenustoja - "Don't stop".

Tenenusimena - "Forget it" - literally "Let you/them not remember"

Tenenyksta viltis - "Let hope not die"

Tenekalba - "Don't speak".

This form is rather archaic, used for blessings, rituals, curses, operas by Giuseppe Verdi, highlighting the feeling of unity, etc. Lithuanian cover "Let it go" from Frozen uses it, too. ^^

[languages-i-guess-comic]

Baltics??! 🤯🤯

[kotonas]

lithuanian word of the day:

gajùs (gah-yuhs) adj.

lush, when smth takes root quickly

one that can heal sb/smth quickly

one that's difficult to destroy

lively, alive

(ever)lasting, resistant

this word comes from contexts of plants and vegetation so the more metaphorical meanings have that kind of color. resistant not as in "withstanding because strong/hard" but because it is able to grow back quickly.

[loo-nuh-tik]

On this lovely day I will ąęčėįųšū and ĄĘČĖĮŲŠŪ 

[lingcharts]

Days of the week in Languages of Northeastern Europe.

Nynorsk, Bokmål, Swedish and Danish are Northern Germanic languages and Latvian and Lithuanian are Baltic languages, all within the Indo-European Language Family. However, Finnish and Estonian are Finnic languages within the Uralic Language Family.

[official-lithuania]

winter vocabulary in Lithuanian:

žiema (f, noun) - winter sniegas (m, noun) - snow šaltis (m, noun) - cold snaigė (f, noun) - snowflake varveklis (m, noun) - icicle ledas (m, noun) - ice šarma (f, noun), šerkšnas (m, noun) - hoarfrost šiaurė (f, noun) - North šiaurinis vėjas (m, adj; noun) - Northern wind lytis (f, noun) - icefloe pūga (f, noun) - blizzard šiaurės pašvaistė (f, noun) - aurora borealis

sniego senis (m, noun) - snowman sniego gniūžtė (m; f noun) - snowball pačiūžos (f, noun) - ice skates rogutės (f, noun) - sled slidinėjimas (m, noun) - skiing sniego karas (m, noun) - snow fight ledo čiuožykla (m; f noun) - ice rink slidės (f, noun) - skis

Kalėdos (f, noun) - Yule/Christmas gruodis (m, noun) - December sausis (m, noun) - January vasaris (m, noun) - February Kalėdų senelis (f; m noun) - Santa Claus Kalėdų eglutė (f, noun) - Yule/Christmas tree kūčiukai (m, noun) - Lithuanian Christmas Eve cookies Kūčios (f, noun) - Christmas Eve Nauji metai (m, adj; noun) - New Year Žiemos saulėgrįža (f, noun) - Winter solstice Pusiaužiemis (m, noun) - Midwinter Užgavėnės (f, noun) - the time before Lent

Photo: Audrius Drobnys

[partsal]

A while ago I was inspired by some charts I found online comparing the names of the months in different Slavic languages, with the ones having a common etymology/semantics indicated by the same colour, so I decided to do one that included all (or well, most of at least) regional variants and dialects lol It also has Lithuanian. It’s very cluttered because of this and it’s a wip but I’ll share it in case anyone is interested and/or would like to contribute:

link to google drive

[balticmythology]

Comparison of pronouns in Baltic languages (with English translation)