Noun: austrumi
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
Plural
| Nominative | austrumi |
| Accusative | austrumus |
| Genitive | austrumu |
| Dative | austrumiem |
| Instrumental | austrumiem |
| Locative | austrumos |
| Vocative | austrumi |
Sample Sentences
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austrumu vējš (east wind)
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ēkas austrumu puse (the east side of the building)
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doties austrumu virzienā (to go east (lit. in the east direction))
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mainīt kursu uz austrumiem (to change course to the east)
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austrumos debesu pamalē jau blāzmoja rīts (in the east horizon the morning begins to dawn)
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Latvijas austrumi (the Latvian east (the east part of Latvia))
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dzīvot pilsētas austrumos (to live in th east (part) of town)
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austrumu tautas, valodas (Eastern peoples, languages)
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lieliska gulta!... tajā varēja gulēt kā sapnī, kā austrumu pasakā (a wonderful bed!... in it you can sleep as in a dream, as in an Eastern fairy tale)
Nouns inflected like austrumi
dienvidi,
saulgrieži,
putekšņi,
ziemeļi,
kūts mēsli,
griesti,
minerālmēsli,
kūtsmēsli,
austrumi,
īsviļņi,
mikroviļņi,
kāposti,
dubļi,
mieži,
milti,
murgi,
tauki,
mēsli,
kaļķi,
pelni, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From the same stem as the verb aust (“to dawn”): from Proto-Baltic *aus- with an extra -(t)rā (cf. austra “dawn light”) + -ums, from Proto-Indo-European *āws-, *aws- (“to shine”) (< *h₂ews-). As in many other Indo-European languages, the term for “east” is thus related to, or derived from, terms meaning “dawn” or “sunrise.”
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