tāss – Latvian noun declension

Noun: tāss
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	tāss
Accusative	tāsi
Genitive	tāss
Dative	tāsij
Instrumental	tāsi
Locative	tāsī
Vocative	tāss

Plural

Nominative	tāsis
Accusative	tāsis
Genitive	tāšu
Dative	tāsīm
Instrumental	tāsīm
Locative	tāsīs
Vocative	tāsis

Sample Sentences

bērzu tāss (birch bark)
tāšu iekuri (birch (bark) kindling)
tāšu darva (birch (bark) tar)
tāšu taure (birch (bark) horn)

Nouns inflected like tāss

nāss, tāss,

Etymology

1. From verb tāst, an archaic and dialectal variant of test, tēst (“to cut, to hew, to trim”).
2. The form follows the pattern of lest, lēst, lāse (compare dialectal forms tāsis, tāse; compare also other dialectal variants above). A comparable synonym term exists in Balto-Finnic languages (e.g., Finnish tuohi) which suggests borrowing between Baltic and Balto-Finnic, but the direction of the borrowing is not clear. Cognates include Lithuanian tóšis. See: Finnish Nouns 'tuohi'.