jauja

See also: Jauja

Lithuanian

Jauja

Etymology

Cognate with Latvian jaūja (“threshing floor”), Old Prussian jauge (“drying shed”). From the same root as javai (“cereals, grains”).

Noun

jáuja f (plural jáujos) stress pattern 1

1. a drying room for grains, or a barn with such a room

   Synonyms: duoba, džiovykla

2. the amount of grain processed in such a room
3. a threshing barn

   Synonyms: klojimas, kluonas

Declension

Declension of jáuja

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	jáuja	jáujos
genitive (kilmininkas)	jáujos	jáujų
dative (naudininkas)	jáujai	jáujoms
accusative (galininkas)	jáują	jáujas
instrumental (įnagininkas)	jáuja	jáujomis
locative (vietininkas)	jáujoje	jáujose
vocative (šauksmininkas)	jáuja	jáujos

References

• “jauja”, in Lietuvių kalbos žodynas [Dictionary of the Lithuanian language], lkz.lt, 1941–2024
• Derksen, Rick (2015) “jauja”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 207

Spanish

Etymology

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxauxa/ [ˈxau̯.xa]
• Rhymes: -auxa
• Syllabification: jau‧ja

Noun

jauja f (plural jaujas)

1. fun place

Further reading

• “jauja”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014