Noun: kustonis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | kustonis |
| Accusative | kustoni |
| Genitive | kustoņa |
| Dative | kustonim |
| Instrumental | kustoni |
| Locative | kustonī |
| Vocative | kustoni |
Plural
| Nominative | kustoņi |
| Accusative | kustoņus |
| Genitive | kustoņu |
| Dative | kustoņiem |
| Instrumental | kustoņiem |
| Locative | kustoņos |
| Vocative | kustoņi |
Sample Sentences
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kūts visiem kustoņiem ir kopēja... vienīgi katrai sugai ierādīts savs kakts (all animals have the barn in common... to every species its place (lit. corner) is shown)
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te ums, večiņ, būs mierīgāka dzīve... te jūs nebūsiet nevienam pa kājām un neaplaidisiet arī visus ar saviem kustoņiem
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pie sienām izkārtas gleznas ar visādiem zvēriem, putniem un čūskām... kādu tik pasaulē nav to kustoņu! (on the wall, paintings with all kinds of animals, birds and snakes were hanging... how many of these animals there are in our world!)
Nouns inflected like kustonis
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
Derived from kustēt (“to move”) (or perhaps the original *kust) + -onis. This word used to mean “insect” (today kukainis); its meaning was expanded in the 19th century, so that by the beginning of the 20th century it was a synonym of dzīvnieks (“animal”).
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