jūra – Latvian noun declension

Noun: jūra
Hyphenation:

Gender: Declension:

Singular

Nominative	jūra
Accusative	jūru
Genitive	jūras
Dative	jūrai
Instrumental	jūru
Locative	jūrā
Vocative	jūra

Plural

Nominative	jūras
Accusative	jūras
Genitive	jūru
Dative	jūrām
Instrumental	jūrām
Locative	jūrās
Vocative	jūras

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like jūra

tulkošana, secība, sezona, saruna, sajūta, samaņa, smarža, skudra, sklēra, muļķība, pirmdiena, bebrāda, skaudība, kaklarota, psihiatrija, vīksna, vīnoga, izmaksa, sešpaka, melnaugļu aronija, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *jáuˀrāˀ ~ *jū́ˀrāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂wer-, *ūr- with an added initial y, from *aw-, *awe- (“to wet, to moisten, to flow”) with a suffix -r. The initial *y may result from metathesis in *awer- (> *h₂wer-, *eur-), or from the influence of some other Proto-Indo-European root like *(e)rey-, *(e)rew- (“to flow”) (metathesized into *ewr-). The original meaning was thus “wet, swampy place” (cf. Lithuanian jáuris (“swamp”) < Proto-Baltic *jaur-), whence “lake” (still attested in old folk tales, and also in borrowings into Finnic: Livonian jõra, Estonian järv, Finnish järvi, Sami jaura, jawre, jávri) and finally “sea.” Cognates include Lithuanian jū́ra, dialectal jūrė, plural jū́ros, jū́rios, jū́rės (cf. Latvian dialectal jūre, jūris, plural jūres), Old Prussian iūrin, *jūren, *jūrʲai, Armenian ջուր (ǰur, “water”), Albanian hurdë (“deep place; pond; swamp”); without the initial *y, also Old Norse úr (“drizzle”), ýra (“to drizzle”), Latin ūrīnō (“to dive, to plunge into water”), ūrīna (“urine”). See: Finnish Nouns 'järvi', Old Norse Nouns 'úr', Latin Nouns 'ūrīnō'.

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