English
Noun
suns
Anagrams
Gothic
Romanization
suns
- (deprecated template usage) Romanization of 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃
Latvian
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Baltic *šuo, *šunas (parallel form *šuns) (perhaps from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Balto-Slavic *ś(w)ōLua error in Module:debug at line 160: This template is not used on Wiktionary.), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Indo-European *ḱwṓ, genitive *ḱunós, *ḱunés. An older (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latvian form *so is now found only in one dialect (Nīgrande) as a word to call dogs. Cognates include (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Lithuanian šuõ (genitive šuñs, dialectal šunis), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Prussian sunis, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Proto-Germanic *hundaz ((deprecated template usage) [etyl] Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (hunds), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Norse hundr, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Icelandic hundur, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Swedish hund, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old High German hunt, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English hund, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German Hund, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Dutch hond, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] English hound), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Irish cú, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Welsh ci, plural cŵn, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Sanskrit श्वन् (śván), genitive śúnaḥ, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬁 (spā), genitive plural sunam, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old Armenian շուն (šun), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin canis ((deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian cane, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese cão, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French chien) [1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
suns m (2nd declension, irregular nominative)
- domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris)
- mājas suns — domestic dog
- medību suns — hunting dog
- aitu, ganu suns — shepherd dog
- nikns suns — wild, angry dog
- suns rej gājēju — the dog barks at the passer-by
- suņa dzīve, darbs — a dog's life, work
Declension
Related terms
See also
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “suns”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
- Latvian etymologies from LEV
- English non-lemma forms
- English noun plural forms
- Gothic non-lemma forms
- Gothic romanizations
- Latvian terms derived from Proto-Baltic
- Latvian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Latvian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian nouns
- Latvian entries with topic categories using raw markup
- Latvian masculine nouns
- Latvian second declension nouns
- Latvian second declension nouns in -s
- lv:Male animals
- lv:Dogs
- lv:Canids
- lv:Mammals