dvēsele
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See also: dvēselē
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes- (“to breathe; breath, spirit, soul”).
Cognate with Lithuanian dvėselė (“soul; (dialectal) strength”) as well as more distantly daũsios and dvėsti; Slavic *dušà and *dȗxъ; Gaulish dusios; and English deer (originally "living thing" < "soul").
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Noun
[edit]dvēsele f (5th declension)
Declension
[edit]Declension of dvēsele (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | dvēsele | dvēseles |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | dvēseli | dvēseles |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | dvēseles | dvēseļu |
dative (datīvs) | dvēselei | dvēselēm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | dvēseli | dvēselēm |
locative (lokatīvs) | dvēselē | dvēselēs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | dvēsele | dvēseles |
References
[edit]- Derksen, Rick (2015) “dvėselė”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 149
Categories:
- Latvian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latvian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *dʰwes-
- Latvian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Latvian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian nouns
- Latvian feminine nouns
- lv:Theology
- Latvian fifth declension nouns
- Latvian noun forms