Noun: kaza
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | kaza |
| Accusative | kazu |
| Genitive | kazas |
| Dative | kazai |
| Instrumental | kazu |
| Locative | kazā |
| Vocative | kaza |
Plural
| Nominative | kazas |
| Accusative | kazas |
| Genitive | kazu |
| Dative | kazām |
| Instrumental | kazām |
| Locative | kazās |
| Vocative | kazas |
Sample Sentences
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mājas kazas (domestic goats)
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kalnu kazas (mountain goats)
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kazu vilna (goat wool)
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kazas bārda (goat beard)
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kazu piens (goat milk)
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kazu siers (goat cheese)
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slaukt kazu (to milk the goat)
Nouns inflected like kaza
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
Apparently borrowed from Russian коза́ (kozá): note that the words for “male goat” and “female goat” in Latvian are non-cognate (āzis and kaza), unlike other Baltic languages (Lithuanian ožỹs, ožkà; Old Prussian wosux ([vōzuks]), wosee ([vōzē])), which suggests that an earlier Latvian term, perhaps *āze (apparently present in place names like Āzes), was replaced by the borrowed kaza.
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