Noun: mute
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | mute |
| Accusative | muti |
| Genitive | mutes |
| Dative | mutei |
| Instrumental | muti |
| Locative | mutē |
| Vocative | mute |
Plural
| Nominative | mutes |
| Accusative | mutes |
| Genitive | mutu |
| Dative | mutēm |
| Instrumental | mutēm |
| Locative | mutēs |
| Vocative | mutes |
Sample Sentences
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mutes orgāni (mouth organs)
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aizvērt muti (to close one's mouth)
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plātīt muti (to keep one's mouth open, to gape)
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turēt mutē konfekti (to have candy in one's mouth)
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mutes kaktiņi (corners of the mouth)
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mutes harmonikas (harmonica (musical instrument))
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krāsns mute (the mouth of the oven)
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mazgāt muti (to wash one's mouth (= face))
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bērni ar netīrām mutēm (children with dirty mouths (= faces))
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dot mutes (to give mouths (= kisses))
Nouns inflected like mute
mušmire,
hercogiste,
sliņķe,
skudre,
izstāde,
ķivere,
vāvere,
etimoloģe,
lielā zīlīte,
epistemoloģe,
miljonāre,
internacionāliste,
uztvere,
aseksuāliste,
humoriste,
kosmoloģe,
kalkulatore,
botāniķe,
zooloģe,
ķīmiķe, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *mnt-, *ment- (“to chew; jaw, mouth”). Cognate with Latin mentum (“chin”) and mandō (“to chew”), Ancient Greek μάσταξ (mástax, “jaws, mouth”) and μασάομαι (masáomai, “to chew”), Welsh mant (“jawbone”), Hittite [script needed] (mēni, “chin”), Proto-Germanic *munþaz (“mouth”) (English mouth, German Mund, Dutch mond, Swedish mun, Icelandic munnur, Gothic 𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃 (munþs)). Another suggestion is a root *mu-, perhaps of ideophonic origin (noise made by using the vocal chords when the mouth is closed), apparently found also in other words (e.g. German Maul). See: Latin Nouns '
mentum', Ancient Greek Nouns '
μάσταξ', English Nouns '
mouth', German Nouns '
Mund', Dutch Nouns '
mond', Swedish Nouns '
mun', Icelandic Nouns '
munnur', Gothic Nouns '
𐌼𐌿𐌽𐌸𐍃', German Nouns '
Maul'.
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