alus – Latvian noun declension

Noun: alus
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	alus
Accusative	alu
Genitive	alus
Dative	alum
Instrumental	alu
Locative	alū
Vocative	alus

Plural

Sample Sentences

gaišais alus (lager)
tumšais alus (dark beer)
mājas alus (home beer)
amatnieku alus (craft beer)
medalus (honey beer)
alus muca (beer barrel, keg)
alus kauss (beer mug)
alus darītava (brewery)
alus rūpniecība (beer industry)
darīt, vārīt alu (to make (literally, “to do”), to brew (literally, “to boil”) beer)
Jāņiem tika brūvēts alus, un nu staigāja no mutes uz muti liela, zaļa māla krūze, putām pārsegta, rūgteni smaržīga dzēriena pilna (in midsummer beer was brewed, and then a big, green clay jug went from mouth to mouth, covered with foam and full of (that) bitter, aromatic drink)

Nouns inflected like alus

medus, klepus, alus,

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *alu, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂elut- (“bitter”). A minority view considers the Latvian and Lithuanian terms to be ultimately borrowings from Germanic, via Old Prussian. Cognates include Lithuanian alùs, Old Prussian alu (“honey drink”), Old East Slavic олъ (olŭ, “strong drink”), Bulgarian олови́на (olovína, “beer yeast”), Slovene ôl (“beer”)|ol, Old English ealu, alu, English ale, Old Norse ǫl (“beer; feast”), Ancient Greek ἀλύδοιμος (alúdoimos, “bitter”). See: Bulgarian Nouns 'олови́на', Old English Nouns 'ealu', English Nouns 'ale', Old Norse Nouns 'ǫl'.