uts

See also: üts'

English

Noun

uts

1. plural of ut

Anagrams

• SUT, Stu, Tsu, UST, ust

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Basque

Noun

uts ?

1. hole

See also

• huskune

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Kalasha

Noun

uts

1. spring (water source)

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Latvian

Uts

Etymology

Usually derived from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *wēt-, *wet-, *ut-, from the stem *wē- (“to blow”) (whence also (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin vējš (“wind”), q.v.) with a suffix -t. J. Endzelīns, connecting this word to Old Prussian wutris (“blacksmith”), and noting the ancient link between the notions of “forging” and “pricking, piercing” (compare Latvian kalt (“to forge”), Russian колоть (kolót', “to pierce”)), suggested that the original meaning of uts was “that which pierces; stitch.” Another opinion is that uts (via *wet-, with a suffix -t) derives from Proto-Indo-European *eu- (“to feel”) (whence also Latvian just (“to feel”), q.v.), so that its original meaning would have been “that which is felt, which irritates.” A third suggestion is that uts comes from Proto-Indo-European *lus, *luH (“louse”) (compare (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lithuanian liũlė, German Laus, English louse), a word which many daughter languages altered or abandoned, perhaps because of linguistic taboos; in the Baltic case, only the middle u would have been kept, with an extra suffix -t. Cognates include Lithuanian utėlė̃, dialectal utė̃, utìs.

Noun

uts f (6th declension)

1. louse, lice (many species of small insect parasites, all in the order Psocodea)

   galvas, drēbju uts ― head, clothes lice

   kaunuma uts ― pubic lice

   utu ķemme ― lice comb (for removing lice)

Declension

Declension of uts (6th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	uts	utis
accusative (akuzatīvs)	uti	utis
genitive (ģenitīvs)	uts	utu
dative (datīvs)	utij	utīm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	uti	utīm
locative (lokatīvs)	utī	utīs
vocative (vokatīvs)	uts	utis

Derived terms

• utains