plīts
Latvian
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Alternative forms
- (dialectal form) plīte
Etymology
A borrowing from Baltic (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Pliete, itself a borrowing from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Russian плита́ (plitá, “stove”). This word is related to Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos, “brick”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
plīts f (6th declension)
- stove, cooker (a heating device with burners for cooking food)
- malkas, gāzes, elektriskā plīts ― wood-burning, gas, electric stove
- bāzt plītī malku ― to put wood into the stove
- podiņu plīts ― tiled stove
- karsta plīts ― hot stove
- plīts kurtuve ― stove burner
- iekurināt plīti ― to heat the stove
Declension
Declension of plīts (6th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
---|---|---|
nominative (nominatīvs) | plīts | plītis |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | plīti | plītis |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | plīts | plīšu |
dative (datīvs) | plītij | plītīm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | plīti | plītīm |
locative (lokatīvs) | plītī | plītīs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | plīts | plītis |
See also
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “plīts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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