kartupelis

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Latvian

 kartupelis on Latvian Wikipedia
Kartupeļi

Etymology

A borrowing, from Baltic (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Low German Kartoffel, Kartuffel (compare High German Kartoffel, Danish kartoffel), from a Romance language: compare Romansch tartuffel, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian tartufalo, from tartufo (truffle). The Latvian form is first attested at the beginning of the 18th century. A number of other (often unrelated) terms for “potato” exist in Latvian dialects alongside the standard word.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

kartupelis m (2nd declension)

  1. potato (plant, Solanum tuberosum, with tubers eaten as a starchy vegetable)
    kartupeļu (lakstu) puvepotato (stem) rot (= a potato disease)
    kartupeļu šķirnespotato varieties
  2. potato (the tubers of the potato plant)
    rakt kartupeļusto dig for potatoes
    kartupeļu maisspotato sack
    mizot, vārīt, cept kartupeļusto peel, to boil, to bake potatoes
    kartupeļu biezenis, biezputramashed potatoes (lit. potato puree)

Declension

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “kartupelis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN