kuģis
Latvian
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Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German kogge (“wide, roundish ship”), or from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Frisian kogge, Middle Dutch kogge, or perhaps from Old Norse kuggi (“sea vessel”) or Swedish kogg (“merchant ship”). The word was first used in Germanic languages to refer to a kind of sail, wide with stumpy, roundish ends; it spread all over the Baltic sea in the 14th-15th centuries with the Hanseatic league, when it was borrowed into (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latvian. At first used only as sailors' slang, it spread under Swedish influence in the 17th and 18th century (though one 18th-century author mentions that kuģis was used mostly in Riga, liela laiva “big boat” being used elsewhere); by the mid-19th century, it had became a general term for all kinds of ships in the standard language.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
kuģis m (2nd declension)
- ship (fairly large vehicle on water)
- pasažieru kuģis ― passenger ship
- tirdzniecības, zvejas kuģis ― commercial, fishing ship
- glābšanas kuģis ― rescue ship
- okeāna, jūras, upes kuģis ― ocean, sea, river ship
- mīnu kuģis ― minelayer (lit. mine ship)
- kuģa korpuss, priekšgals, pakaļgals ― ship hull, bow, stern
- kuģa klājs ― ship deck
- kuģa kapteinis, apkalpe ― ship's captain, crew
- kuģa žurnāls ― ship's log book
- uzkāpt uz kuģa ― climb on board of, embark on the ship
- nokāpt no kuģa ― to disembark form the ship
- kuģu būvētava ― shipyard
- kara kuģis ― war ship
- lidmašīnu bāzes kuģis ― aircraft carrier
- flying vessel (syn. lidaparāts)
- gaisa kuģis, gaisakuģis ― aircraft
- kosmikais, kosmosa kuģis ― spaceship
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References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “kuģis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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