pastala
See also: pastalā
Latvian
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Etymology
This word, already mentioned in 14th-century texts, is traditionally considered a borrowing from Russian посто́лы (postóly) (dialectal), itself apparently a borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Turkish postal (“shoe”), from post (“skin, leather”). More recently, it has been suggested that it may be derived from the stem of stāt (“to stop, to stand”); cf. Lithuanian pastõlas, pastõlis (“base, support”). If this is true, the original meaning of pastala would have been “that which is located under (something else).” Some (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Prussian place names (Pastoline, Pastelina) appear to contain a cognate of this word.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
pastala f (4th declension)
- (usually in the plural) simple, primitive shoes made of one piece of leather without seams and with straps or laces on top
- dziļās pastalas ― deep pastalas
- Sīmanis apsēdās grāvmālē atpūsties, savilka ciešāk atslābušās pastalu auklas ― Sīmanis sat down by the ditch to rest (and) tightened his loose pastala laces
Declension
Declension of pastala (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
---|---|---|
nominative (nominatīvs) | pastala | pastalas |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | pastalu | pastalas |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | pastalas | pastalu |
dative (datīvs) | pastalai | pastalām |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | pastalu | pastalām |
locative (lokatīvs) | pastalā | pastalās |
vocative (vokatīvs) | pastala | pastalas |
See also
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pastala”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN