pīle
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "pile"
Latvian
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Etymology
[edit]Of onomatopoeic (imitative) origin, as is the case with several other Indo-European bird names, all from Proto-Indo-European onomatopoeic *pī- (reduplicated form *pīp-): Samogitian pīlė (“duck”), Bulgarian пи́ле (píle, “chick, young bird”), Serbo-Croatian pȉle (“chick”), Slovene pípa (“chicken”), Ancient Greek πῑ́πος (pī́pos, “young bird”). The Latvian term, originally probably a dialectal colloquialism, has apparently replaced an earlier Proto-Baltic *antis; compare Lithuanian ántis (“duck”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]pīle f (5th declension)
- duck (birds of family Anatidae)
- mājas pīle ― domestic (lit. house) duck
- meža pīle ― wild (lit. forest) duck
- pīļu mātīte ― female duck
- pīļu olas ― duck eggs
- pīļu ligzdošanas vietas ― duck nesting areas
- pīļu audzētava ― duck farm
- pīles cepetis ― roast duck
- (colloquial) false sensationalist rumors
- avīžu pīle ― newspaper sensationalist rumors
- palaist pīli ― to run a sensationalist rumor
Declension
[edit]Declension of pīle (5th declension)
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pīle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Tocharian B
[edit]Noun
[edit]pīle m
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