Noun: kāss
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | kāss |
| Accusative | kāsu |
| Genitive | kāsa |
| Dative | kāsam |
| Instrumental | kāsu |
| Locative | kāsā |
| Vocative | kās |
Plural
Sample Sentences
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tas bija liels un nepārtraukts kāss (that was a big, uninterrupted cough(ing))
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lāgiem viņai uznāca kāss, tad viņa ilgi kāsēja bez balss, gandrīz nosmakdama (sometimes she had a cough, then she coughed without voice for a while, almost stifling)
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sauss, rejošs kāss mainās ar sēcošas aizdusas brīžiem (a dry, barking (= deep) cough sometimes alternates with wheezing shortness of breath)
Nouns inflected like kāss
selēns,
pēkšņums,
valodīgums,
skandijs,
žiglums,
izbrīns,
vēsums,
paradoksālums,
vājums,
badmintons,
oglekļa dioksīds,
lourensijs,
darba lauks,
plānums,
baigums,
sāļums,
adrenalīns,
rēnijs,
rādijs,
brūnums, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From an older (still dialectally attested) word kāsus, from Proto-Baltic *kās-, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷās- (“cough, to cough”).
2. Cognates include Lithuanian kosulỹs, Proto-Slavic *kaš(ь)lь (Russian ка́шель (kášelʹ), Bulgarian ка́шлица (kášlica), Czech kašel, Polish kaszel), Old High German huosto, German Husten, Sanskrit कासते (kāsate). See: Bulgarian Nouns '
ка́шлица', Czech Nouns '
kašel', Polish Nouns '
kaszel', German Nouns '
Husten'.
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