ūdrs

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Ūdrs

Alternative forms

• (dialectal forms) ūdris

Etymology

From the same stem as ūdens: Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥, *wédōr (“water”) (from *aw(e)- (“moisten”) plus a derivational -d, forming *awed, *aud, *ud) , with a suffix *-ro; the original meaning was probably “aquatic animal”, still attested in Sanskrit. Cognates include Lithuanian ū́dra, ū́dras (cf. Latvian dialectal ūdris), Old Prussian udro, Proto-Slavic *vydra (Russian, Belarusian выдра (výdra), Bulgarian видра (vídra), Czech vydra, Polish wydra, Upper Sorbian wudra), Proto-Germanic *otra < *utra (Old High German ottar, Old Norse otr, Old English oter, German Otter, Swedish utter, English otter), Sanskrit उद्रः (udráḥ), Ancient Greek ὕδρος, ὕδρα (hýdros, hýdra, “water serpent”), Latin lutra < *utrā- < *udrā- (French loutre, Romanian lutră, Italian, Portuguese lontra, Spanish lutria, nutria).

Pronunciation

• IPA: [ûːdrs]

Noun

ūdrs m, 1st declension

1. otter (any aquatic or marine mustelid)

   parastais ūdrs — common otter

Declension

declension of ūdrs

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	ūdrs	ūdri
accusative (akuzatīvs)	ūdru	ūdrus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	ūdra	ūdru
dative (datīvs)	ūdram	ūdriem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	ūdru	ūdriem
locative (lokatīvs)	ūdrā	ūdros
vocative (vokatīvs)	ūdr	ūdri