alksnis – Latvian noun declension

Noun: alksnis
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	alksnis
Accusative	alksni
Genitive	alkšņa
Dative	alksnim
Instrumental	alksni
Locative	alksnī
Vocative	alksni

Plural

Nominative	alkšņi
Accusative	alkšņus
Genitive	alkšņu
Dative	alkšņiem
Instrumental	alkšņiem
Locative	alkšņos
Vocative	alkšņi

Sample Sentences

alkšņa miza (alder bark)
alkšņu spurdzes (alder catkin)
alkšņu audze (alder grove)
cirst alkšņus malkai (to chop alders into firewood)
Māriņa beidza šūt savu alkšņu mizās krāsoto kleitu, ko ziemā bija noaudusi (Māriņa finished sewing her dress, the color of alder bark, which she had woven (last) winter)

Nouns inflected like alksnis

cirsnis, alksnis, cietoksnis, troksnis, cirksnis, slieksnis,

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *el(i)sni̯a, *al(i)sni̯a (with an epenthetic k between the l and the s), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂élis- with a suffix -nyo, from the root *el-, *ol-, *h₂él- “reddish brown color.” Cognates include Lithuanian al̃ksnis, dialectal el̃ksnis, Old Prussian abskande (= [aliskande] < *al(i)skands < *al(i)skans < *al(i)skṇs < *al(i)ksnas), Proto-Slavic *elьxa < *elisā (Russian ольха́ (olʹxá), Belarusian во́льха (vólʹxa), Ukrainian ві́льха (vílʹxa), Bulgarian елха́ (elhá), Belarusian алёс (aljós, “alder grove, swampy place”)), Proto-Germanic *alizō, *alusō (Gothic *𐌰𐌻𐌹𐍃𐌰 (*alisa), Old High German erila < *elira, German Erle), Latin alnus < *al(i)snos. See: Belarusan Nouns 'алёс', German Nouns 'Erle', Latin Nouns 'alnus'.