suns
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English
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]suns
Verb
[edit]suns
- third-person singular simple present indicative of sun
Anagrams
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[edit]Romanization
[edit]suns
- Romanization of 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃
Latvian
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Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kwṓ. An older Latvian form *so is now found only in one dialect (Nīgrande) as a word to call dogs. Cognates include Lithuanian šuõ (genitive šuñs, dialectal šunis), Old Prussian sunis, Proto-Germanic *hundaz (Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (hunds), Old Norse hundr, Icelandic hundur, Swedish hund, Old High German hunt, Old English hund, German Hund, Dutch hond, English hound), Irish cú, Welsh ci, plural cŵn, Sanskrit श्वन् (śván), genitive शुनस् (śunas), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬁 (spā), genitive plural 𐬯𐬎𐬥𐬀𐬨 (sunam), Old Armenian շուն (šun), Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn), Latin canis (Italian cane, Portuguese cão, French chien, Spanish can).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]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 uz gājēju ― the dog barks at the passer-by
- suņa dzīve, darbs ― a dog's life, work
Declension
[edit]Declension of suns (2nd declension)
Related terms
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “suns”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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