Noun: elkonis
Hyphenation:
Gender:
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | elkonis |
| Accusative | elkoni |
| Genitive | elkoņa |
| Dative | elkonim |
| Instrumental | elkoni |
| Locative | elkonī |
| Vocative | elkoni |
Plural
| Nominative | elkoņi |
| Accusative | elkoņus |
| Genitive | elkoņu |
| Dative | elkoņiem |
| Instrumental | elkoņiem |
| Locative | elkoņos |
| Vocative | elkoņi |
Sample Sentences
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atspiesties uz elkoņiem (to lean on the elbows)
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paņemt pie elkoņa (to take (someone) by the elbow)
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piegrūst ar elkoni (to nudge (someone) with the elbow)
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vecs, rūtains krekls trīskārt lāpītiem elkoņiem (an old, checkered shirt with thrice-patched elbows)
Nouns inflected like elkonis
sapnis,
sainis,
skanis,
sniegputenis,
bārenis,
lentenis,
spēkonis,
zvīnis,
zirnis,
sūknis,
ukrainis,
spilvenis,
stundenis,
gavēnis,
ūdenstornis,
skaļrunis,
kustonis,
gubumākonis,
stulbenis,
līdzskanis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Latvian dialectal elks (“bend, angle”) + -onis, from Proto-Baltic *elk-, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *alk, from Proto-Indo-European *Heh₃l- (“to bend”), with an extra k.
2. Cognates include Lithuanian alkū́nė (“elbow; bend”), dialectal elkū́nė, Old Prussian alkunis ([alkūnis]), Proto-Slavic *olkъtь (Old Church Slavonic лакъть (lakŭtĭ), Russian ло́коть (lókotʹ), Czech loket, Polish lokieć), Old Irish aleina, Old High German elina, German Ellenbogen, Dutch elleboog, English elbow, Ancient Greek ὠλένη (ōlénē), Latin ulna (“elbow, arm”) (< *olinā-), Old Armenian ողն (ołn, “back, spine”), ուլն (uln, “neck”), Hittite alkištan-. See: Czech Nouns '
loket', German Nouns '
Ellenbogen', Dutch Nouns '
elleboog', English Nouns '
elbow', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὠλένη', Latin Nouns '
ulna'.
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