tāss

See also: tass, Tass, and TASS

Latvian

Bērzu tāss

Alternative forms

• (dialectal forms) tāsis, tāse
• (dialectal forms) tāsts, tāste

Etymology

From verb tāst, an archaic and dialectal variant of test, tēst (“to cut, to hew, to trim”); the form follows the pattern of lest, lēst, lāse (compare dialectal forms tāsis, tāse; compare also other dialectal variants above). A comparable synonym term exists in Balto-Finnic languages (e.g., Finnish tuohi) which suggests borrowing between Baltic and Balto-Finnic, but the direction of the borrowing is not clear. Cognates include Lithuanian tóšis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [tāːss]

Noun

tāss f (6th declension)

1. birchbark (white bark of the birch tree, formerly used as writing material)

   bērzu tāss ― birch bark

   tāšu iekuri ― birch (bark) kindling

   tāšu darva ― birch (bark) tar

   tāšu taure ― birch (bark) horn

Declension

Declension of tāss (6th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	tāss	tāsis
accusative (akuzatīvs)	tāsi	tāsis
genitive (ģenitīvs)	tāss	tāšu
dative (datīvs)	tāsij	tāsīm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	tāsi	tāsīm
locative (lokatīvs)	tāsī	tāsīs
vocative (vokatīvs)	tāss	tāsis

See also

• miza
• bērzs