glāze

See also: glaze and glāzē

Latvian

Glāze

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Dutch glas or Middle Low German glas (“glass (material; container)”). The Germanic term probably meant originally “amber” (a meaning still attested in Old High German), and only later “glass.” The borrowing is first mentioned in 17th-century Latvian dictionaries (though the family name Glāznieks is already attested in Kurzeme in the 16th century). Up until the 19th century, glāze meant both the material and the container; by the late 19th century on, these two meanings had already been split between glāze and stikls.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ɡlāːzɛ]

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Noun

glāze f (5th declension)

1. glass (small, usually cylindrical container for liquids, from which one drinks)

   vīna, alus glāze ― wine, beer glass

   kristāla glāzes ― crystal glasses

   krāsaina stikla glāzes ― glasses (made) of colored glass

   ieliet limonādi glāzēs ― to pour lemonade in the glasses

   tēvs paņem vīna pudeli un piepilda glāzes ― father takes the wine bottle and fills the glasses

2. glass (the container with its contents; its contents)

   “jūs esat lielisks runātājs, biedri Saleniek”, teica Ozols, pasniegdams ūdens glāzi ― “you are a great speaker, comrade Saleniek,” Ozols said, handing him a glass of water

   apsēdies, izdzer glāzi piena ― sit down, drink a glass of milk

   saputotām olām pievienot glāzi piena ― to add a glass of milk to the whipped eggs

   divām glāzēm ogu pievienot divas glāzes cukura ― to add two glasses of sugar to two glasses of berries

3. (dated sense, syn. stikls) glass (material)

   zilas glāžu sienas ― blue glass walls

   palielināmā, (pa)vairojamā glāze ― magnifying glass

Declension

Declension of glāze (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	glāze	glāzes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	glāzi	glāzes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	glāzes	glāžu
dative (datīvs)	glāzei	glāzēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	glāzi	glāzēm
locative (lokatīvs)	glāzē	glāzēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	glāze	glāzes

Synonyms

• (of material): stikls