klēts

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See also: klets

Latvian

Klēts

Etymology

From the same stem as the verb celt (to raise); the actual form underwent metathesis (*keltis > *klētis > klēts). The original meaning was probably “raised, elevated building.” Cognates include (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lithuanian klė́tis, Old Prussian clenan, Old Church Slavonic клѣть (klětĭ), Russian клеть (kletʹ), Belarusian клець (kljecʹ), Ukrainian кліть (klitʹ), Bulgarian клет (klet), Czech klec, Polish kleć. (Some researchers believe that the Slavic terms result from an early borrowing from Baltic.)[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

klēts f (6th declension)

  1. granary, barn (storage building for grain or animal feed)
    labības klētswheat granary
    savest, sabērt ražu klētīsto bring, to store the harvest in the granaries, barns
    klēts apcirkņigranary bins
    Ukraina bija Padomju savienības maizes klētsUkraine was the breadbasket of the Soviet Union

Declension

See also

References

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