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sėkla

Pronunciation: [¹ˈsʲeːklɐ]

“sėkla” is a Lithuanian word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. seed (the reproductive organ of flowering plants)
  2. sown seeds
  3. breed, species
  4. family, strain
  5. children, descendants
  6. sperm
  7. seedtime
  8. beginning (initial thing, foundation, element, principle)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *sētl-ā-, a collective formation from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁tlom, from *seh₁- + *-tlom. Cognate with Latvian sēkla. See also sė́ti.

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