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Norvaitis

NORVAITIS

Etymology

♦ Possibly double-stemmed example: Nor-vaitis. For want- see Nárbutas, for white- cf. pers.n. Váitkantas, Váitnor, whose first stem is derived from lit. vai-énti „aptarti, spręsti“, OPr. wait-iāt „kalbėti, šnekėti“ ¹, see also Z. Zinkevičius, 2008, 227.

Feminine FORMS

Norvaitienė / Norvaitytė

Pronunciation

/noːrʋɐɪtʲɪs/

SEE ALSO

SOURCES

1. K. Kuzavinis, B. Savukynas, 1986, 361.