Noun: strazds
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | strazds |
| Accusative | strazdu |
| Genitive | strazda |
| Dative | strazdam |
| Instrumental | strazdu |
| Locative | strazdā |
| Vocative | strazd |
Plural
| Nominative | strazdi |
| Accusative | strazdus |
| Genitive | strazdu |
| Dative | strazdiem |
| Instrumental | strazdiem |
| Locative | strazdos |
| Vocative | strazdi |
Sample Sentences
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strazdu dzimta (the starling family (Sturnidae))
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strazdu būris (a bird house (for starlings))
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mājas strazds (common (lit. house) starling (Sturnus vulgaris))
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sila strazds (mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus))
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dziedātājstrazds (song thrush (Turdus philomelos))
Nouns inflected like strazds
gredzens,
greznums,
sniegs,
salāts,
sakars,
diftongs,
smaids,
sonets,
sivēns,
dienests,
piecnieks,
skudrs,
skvērs,
skaits,
pacients,
vilciens,
realizējums,
skatiens,
izskats,
spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Balto-Slavic *trazdas with an additional initial s-, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”). In some Latvian dialects, the z was eliminated by dissimilation, yielding strads.
2. Cognates include Lithuanian strãzdas, dialectal strazdà, strazà, strãzas, Old Prussian tresde, Proto-Slavic *trozdъ, from *drozdъ (Russian, Bulgarian дрозд (drozd), Ukrainian дрізд (drizd), Czech drozd, dialectal drozda, zdrozda, drozen, Polish drozd), Proto-Germanic *þrau(d)-st-, *þrōst-, *þrast-ur (Old High German drōsca-, German Drossel, English throstle, Old Norse þrǭstr-, Norwegian trost, Swedish trast), Breton trask, draskl, tred, dred, Latin turdus (< *tr̥zdos) (Spanish tordo, Portuguese tordo, Italian tordo). See: Ukrainian Nouns '
дрізд', Czech Nouns '
drozd', Polish Nouns '
drozd', German Nouns '
Drossel', English Nouns '
throstle', Swedish Nouns '
trast', Latin Nouns '
turdus', Spanish Nouns '
tordo', Portuguese Nouns '
tordo', Italian Nouns '
tordo'.
Verbs referencing "strazds"
Finnish Nouns
rastas, Old Norse Nouns
þrǫstr.
Translations