plauksta

== Latvian == === Etymology === Cognate with Russian плюсна́ (pljusná), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *pl(j)ousk-. Pokorny compares Latin plautus (“flatfooted”), Latin plaudō (“to applaud”), Ancient Greek πλαίσιον (plaísion, “oblong case”), but a shared origin for all of these words is far from certain; possibly Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“flat”). === Noun === plauksta f (4th declension) hand palm (inner, concave part of hand) Synonym: delna ==== Declension ==== ==== See also ==== roka === References === Derksen, Rick (2015), “plauksta”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 546