amžius

Etymology
Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬,, with further origin unclear:
 * King derives the Baltic terms from, an extension of , comparing 🇨🇬 in particular. The hypothetical series of phonetic developments is >  >  >  > . This seems most tenable, when considering phonetics and semantics.
 * Fraenkel tentatively connects the word to 🇨🇬, and thus implicitly derives the words from.
 * Heidermanns tentatively derives the word from an earlier, from , with semantic development "to urinate away" > "to seed (life)" > "life, era". This is semantically rather ad hoc.

Noun

 * 1) life time from birth to death
 * 2) age
 * 3) century (100 years)
 * 1) century (100 years)