vāvere
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See also: vāverē
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From a reduplicated form of Proto-Baltic *war-, from Proto-Indo-European *wewer-, from *wor-, *wer- (“squirrel, small forest mammal”), probably from *wer- (“to turn, to bend”) (perhaps because of this animal's flexible body). Cognates include Lithuanian voverė̃, Old Prussian weware, Russian dialectal веверица (veverica), вевёрка (vevjórka), Belarusian вавё́рка (vavjórka), Ukrainian віве́рица (vivéryca), веві́рка (vevírka), ви́вірка (vývirka), Bulgarian ве́верица (véverica), Czech veverka, Polish wiewiórka, Old High German eihhurno, eihhorno (< *aik-wer-nô, German Eichhorn, Dutch eekhoorn, Persian وروره (varvarah), Welsh gwiwer, Latin vīverra (“ferret”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]vāvere f (5th declension)
- squirrel (family Sciuridae)
- rudā vāvere ― red squirrel
- klinšu vāvere ― rock squirrel
- vāveres ligzda ― squirrel nest
- vāvere čokstina ― the squirrel squeaks
Declension
[edit]Declension of vāvere (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | vāvere | vāveres |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | vāveri | vāveres |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | vāveres | vāveru |
dative (datīvs) | vāverei | vāverēm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | vāveri | vāverēm |
locative (lokatīvs) | vāverē | vāverēs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | vāvere | vāveres |
Derived terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “vāvere”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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