suns

See also šuns, and suņs

English

Noun

suns

1. Plural form of sun

Anagrams

• snus

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Gothic

Romanization

suns

1. See 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃

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Latvian

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Suns

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ, genitive *ḱunós, *ḱunés, from which Latvian so (suo), suns (so is now found only in one dialect as a word to call dogs). Cognates include Lithuanian šuõ (genitive šuñs, dialectal šunis), Old Prussian sunis, Proto-Germanic *hundaz (Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (hunds), Old Norse hundr, Icelandic hundur, Swedish hund, Old High German hunt, Old English hund, German Hund, Dutch hond, English hound), Irish cú, Welsh ci, plural cŵn, Sanskrit श्वन् (śván), genitive śúnaḥ, Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬁 (spā), genitive plural sunam, Old Armenian շուն (šun), Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn), Latin canis (Italian cane, Portuguese cão, French chien)

Noun

suns m, 2nd declension (irregular nominative)

1. domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris)

   mājas suns — domestic dog

   medību suns — hunting dog

   aitu, ganu suns — shepherd dog

   nikns suns — wild, angry dog

   suns rej gājēju — the dog barks at the passer-by

   suņa dzīve, darbs — a dog's life, work

Declension

declension of suns

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	suns	suņi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	suni	suņus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	suņa	suņu
dative (datīvs)	sunim	suņiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	suni	suņiem
locative (lokatīvs)	sunī	suņos
vocative (vokatīvs)	suni	suņi

Related terms

• šunelis

See also

• kuce
• kucēns