pīle

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pile"

Latvian

pīle on Latvian Wikipedia

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]

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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 of pīle (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pīle	pīles
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pīli	pīles
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pīles	pīļu
dative (datīvs)	pīlei	pīlēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pīli	pīlēm
locative (lokatīvs)	pīlē	pīlēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	pīle	pīles

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

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