alus

English

Noun

alus

1. plural of alu

Anagrams

• Luas, Saul, ULAs, auls, saul

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Estonian

Etymology

From ala- +‎ -us.

Noun

alus (genitive aluse, partitive alust)

1. bottom
2. watercraft

Declension

Inflection of alus (ÕS type 9/katus, no gradation)

	singular	plural
nominative	alus	alused
accusative	aluse	alused
genitive	aluse	aluste
partitive	alust	aluseid
illative	alusesse	alustesse aluseisse
inessive	aluses	alustes aluseis
elative	alusest	alustest aluseist
allative	alusele	alustele aluseile
adessive	alusel	alustel aluseil
ablative	aluselt	alustelt aluseilt
translative	aluseks	alusteks aluseiks
terminative	aluseni	alusteni
essive	alusena	alustena
abessive	aluseta	alusteta
comitative	alusega	alustega

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈɑlus]
• Hyphenation: a‧lus

Noun

alus

1. vessel, craft, ship (vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space)
2. underlay (anything underlaid)
3. (grammar, rare) subject

Declension

Inflection of alus (Kotus type 39/vastaus, no gradation)
nominative		alus	alukset
genitive		aluksen	alusten aluksien
partitive		alusta	aluksia
illative		alukseen	aluksiin
		singular	plural
nominative		alus	alukset
accusative	nom.	alus	alukset
	gen.	aluksen
genitive		aluksen	alusten aluksien
partitive		alusta	aluksia
inessive		aluksessa	aluksissa
elative		aluksesta	aluksista
illative		alukseen	aluksiin
adessive		aluksella	aluksilla
ablative		alukselta	aluksilta
allative		alukselle	aluksille
essive		aluksena	aluksina
translative		alukseksi	aluksiksi
instructive		—	aluksin
abessive		aluksetta	aluksitta
comitative		—	aluksineen

Synonyms

• (ship): laiva
• (underlay): alunen, alusta
• (subject): subjekti

Derived terms

• alustaa

Compounds

• alushame
• alushousut
• aluskasvillisuus
• aluskimono
• aluslevy
• alusmaa

• aluspaita
• alusvaate
• avaruusalus
• emoalus
• huoltoalus
• ilma-alus

• kalastusalus
• kynnenalus
• lentotukialus
• matkustaja-alus
• pannunalus

• puskualus
• risteilyalus
• sota-alus
• tukialus
• työntöalus

Anagrams

• sula

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Latvian

Alus

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *alu-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- (“bitter”). A minority view considers the Latvian and Lithuanian terms to be ultimately borrowings from Germanic, via Old Prussian. Cognates include Lithuanian alùs, Old Prussian alu (“honey drink”), Old East Slavic олъ (olŭ, “strong drink”), Bulgarian оловина (olovína, “beer yeast”), Slovene ôl (“beer”), Old English ealu, alu, English ale, Old Norse ǫl (“beer; feast”), Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [alus]

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Noun

alus m (3rd declension)

1. beer (alcoholic beverage usually made with barley malt and hops)

   gaišais alus ― lager (lit. light beer)

   tumšais alus ― dark beer

   alus muca ― beer barrel, keg

   alus kauss ― beer mug

   alus darītava ― brewery (lit. beer making place)

   alus rūpniecība ― beer industry

   darīt, brūvēt alu ― to make, to brew beer

   Jāņiem tika brūvēts alus, un nu staigāja no mutes uz muti liela, zaļa māla krūze, putām pārsegta, rūgteni smaržīga dzēriena pilna ― in midsummer beer was brewed, and then a big, green clay jug went from mouth to mouth, covered with foam and full of (that) bitter, aromatic drink

Declension

Declension of alus (3rd declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	alus	—
accusative (akuzatīvs)	alu	—
genitive (ģenitīvs)	alus	—
dative (datīvs)	alum	—
instrumental (instrumentālis)	alu	—
locative (lokatīvs)	alū	—
vocative (vokatīvs)	alus	—

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Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *alu, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut-.

Cognate with Proto-Slavic *olъ (“beer”) and Old Prussian alu (“beer”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɐˈlʊs]

Noun

alùs m (plural ãlūs) stress pattern 4

1. ale
2. (libelous) beer

Declension

declension of alus

	singular (vienaskaita)	plural (daugiskaita)
nominative (vardininkas)	alùs	ãlūs
genitive (kilmininkas)	alaũs	alų̃
dative (naudininkas)	ãlui	alùms
accusative (galininkas)	ãlų	alùs
instrumental (įnagininkas)	alumì	alumìs
locative (vietininkas)	alujè	aluosè
vocative (šauksmininkas)	alaũ	ãlūs

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, ISBN 978 90 04 15504 6, page 370