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See also: šuns, and suņs

English

Noun

suns

  1. (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) plural of sun

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Gothic

Romanization

suns

  1. (deprecated template usage) Romanization of 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃

Latvian

 suns on Latvian Wikipedia
 
Suns

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 , (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)

  1. 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

See also

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “suns”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN