Noun: milti
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
Plural
| Nominative | milti |
| Accusative | miltus |
| Genitive | miltu |
| Dative | miltiem |
| Instrumental | miltiem |
| Locative | miltos |
| Vocative | milti |
Sample Sentences
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graudu milti (grain flour)
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kviešu, rudzu milti (wheat, rye flour)
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rupji, smalki milti (coarse, fine flour)
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bīdelētie milti (finely ground flour)
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miltu putra (flour porridge)
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miltu omlete (flour omelette)
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miltu ērce, kode (flour mite, moth)
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“lai Arturs aiziet uz veikalu un atnes maizei miltus”, tēvs īsi sacīja (“let Arthur go to the shop and bring flour for the bread”, father said succinctly)
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vienu dienu uz pavasara pusi Vilis atved divus maisus miltu (one day, when it was still spring, Vilis brought two sacks of flour)
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kaļķakmens milti (limestone flour)
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kartupeļu milti (potato flour (= starch from potatoes))
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zivju milti (fish flour)
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siena, skuju milti (hay, pine flour (= animal feed))
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koksnes, koka milti (wood flour (= very finely ground wood))
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koka miltus iegūst no lapkoku un skujkoku koksnes (wood flour is obtained from deciduous and conifer wood (= trees))
Nouns inflected like milti
dienvidi,
saulgrieži,
putekšņi,
ziemeļi,
kūts mēsli,
griesti,
minerālmēsli,
kūtsmēsli,
austrumi,
īsviļņi,
mikroviļņi,
kāposti,
dubļi,
mieži,
milti,
murgi,
tauki,
mēsli,
kaļķi,
pelni, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Originally from the past participle *milts, plural *milti, of an unattested verb *milt (“to crumble; to grind”), from Proto-Baltic *mil-, from Proto-Indo-European *ml̥-, the reduced grade of *mel- (whence also Latvian malt “to grind” (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian mi̇̀ltai, Old Prussian miltan.
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