kovas

kovas

1. present of kovi

Onomatopoeic of the rook's cry;^[1] compare Proto-Slavic *gàvornъ (“rook”), English caw for similar formations. The shift to the "March" meaning comes from the fact that rooks (and other corvids) often begin building their rests in March.

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kóvas m (plural kovaĩ) stress pattern 3

1. March (third month of the Gregorian calendar)
2. rook (bird)

• (Gregorian calendar months) sausis, vasaris, kovas, balandis, gegužė, birželis, liepa, rugpjūtis, rugsėjis, spalis, lapkritis, gruodis ^{(Category: lt:Months)}

• vokas

kovas

1. indefinite genitive singular of kova