balss – Latvian noun declension

Noun: balss
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	balss
Accusative	balsi
Genitive	balss
Dative	balsij
Instrumental	balsi
Locative	balsī
Vocative	balss

Plural

Nominative	balsis
Accusative	balsis
Genitive	balsu
Dative	balsīm
Instrumental	balsīm
Locative	balsīs
Vocative	balsis

Sample Sentences

spēcīga balss (strong voice)
balss trīc, dreb (the voice trembles)
balss tembrs, spēks, augstums (voice timbre, power, pitch)
balss aparāts (speech (lit. voice) organs)
balss saites (vocal cords)
lasīt balsī (to read out loud (lit. to read in voice))
pacelt, raudāt balsi (to lower, to raise one's voice)
priecīga, skumja balss (happy, sad voice)
dusmīga, mierīga, vienaldzīga balss (angry, calm, indifferent voice)
kadā balss ierunājās aiz muguras (some voice spoke behind (his) back)
zemes balss (the voice of the earth)
sirds balss (the voice of one's heart)
augsta, zema balss (high, low (pitched) voice)
dziedātāja balss (a singer's voice)
balss diapazons (voice range)
augšējā balss (the upper voice)
pastāvīga balss (constant voice)
balsu kustība (voice movement)
dziedāt pirmo balsi (to sing the first voice)
dziesma divām balsīm (a song for two voices)
putnu balsis (bird songs)
lakstīgalas balss (nightingale's voice)
vēja balss (the voice of the wind)
tautas balss (the voice of the people)
sabiedrības balss (the voice of society, public voice)
naida balss (the voice of hate)
cilvēcības balss (the voice of humanity)
tauta, kam bija atņemta sava balss (a people who had been deprived of their voice)
nodot, atdot, dot (savu) balsi (to give one's vote, to vote)
izšķirt jautājumu ar balsu vairākumu (to settle the question by majority vote)
absolūtais balsu vairākums (absolute voting majority)

Nouns inflected like balss

Havaju zoss, žults, balss, takts, pirts, acs, ass, uts, vēsts, pilsētvalsts, cūkkūts, debess, maksts, cūku kūts, valsts, auss, kūts, zoss,

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *balsas, from the o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *bʰel-, *bʰol- (“to sound, to speak, to roar, to bark”), with an extra suffix -so (*bʰol-so-s). Cognates include Lithuanian bal̃sas, Russian болтать (boltatʹ, “to chat, to chatter”), dialectal балдить (balditʹ, “to often repeat the same thing”), Old High German bellan, German bellen (“to bark”), Middle Low German bulderen, German poltern (“to rumble; to speak loud”). See: German Nouns 'bellen'.