vēstule – Latvian noun declension

Latvian noun forms of vēstule

Noun: vēstule
Hyphenation:
Gender: Declension:

Singular

Nominativevēstule
Accusativevēstuli
Genitivevēstules
Dativevēstulei
Instrumentalvēstuli
Locativevēstulē
Vocativevēstule

Plural

Nominativevēstules
Accusativevēstules
Genitivevēstuļu
Dativevēstulēm
Instrumentalvēstulēm
Locativevēstulēs
Vocativevēstules

Sample Sentences

  • privāta vēstule (private letter)
  • oficiāla vēstule (official letter)
  • mīlestības vēstule (love letter)
  • atplēst vēstuli (to open a letter)
  • ierakstīta, apdrošināta vēstule (registered letter)
  • atklāta vēstule (open letter (published in a newspaper))
  • vēstules nosūtītājs, saņēmējs (letter sender, receiver (addressee))

Etymology

Coined by Atis Kronvalds in 1869, derived from vēstīt (“to herald, to announce”) (compare vēsts (“news”)). Its form was influenced by Ancient Greek ἐπιστολή (epistolḗ, “letter; command, commission; will”). Krovanlds proposed other related words (vēstulēties “to correspond, exchange letters,” and also vēstulēšanās, vēstulējums, vēstulība) which did not find acceptance. Before Kronvalds' vēstule, the concept of “letter” was expressed as (rakstīta) grāmata; the term breve (from Italian breve (“short writing”), from Latin brevis (“short”); compare German Brief), introduced by the journal Pēterburgas Avīzes (probably by J. Alunāns), did not find acceptance either. See: Ancient Greek Nouns 'ἐπιστολή', Italian Nouns 'breve', Latin Nouns 'brevis', German Nouns 'Brief'.

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