Noun: āpsis
Hyphenation:
Gender:
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | āpsis |
| Accusative | āpsi |
| Genitive | āpša |
| Dative | āpsim |
| Instrumental | āpsi |
| Locative | āpsī |
| Vocative | āpsi |
Plural
| Nominative | āpši |
| Accusative | āpšus |
| Genitive | āpšu |
| Dative | āpšiem |
| Instrumental | āpšiem |
| Locative | āpšos |
| Vocative | āpši |
Sample Sentences
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āpša āda (badger skin)
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āpšu alas (badger burrow)
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dzīvot kā āpsim alā (to live like a badger in his burrow (= without paying attention to the lives of others))
Nouns inflected like āpsis
vērsis,
ķeksis,
ķirsis,
puteņu mēnesis,
papuves mēnesis,
baložu mēnesis,
meteņu mēnesis,
sērsnu mēnesis,
salnas mēnesis,
sila virsis,
sējas mēnesis,
ziņnesis,
lapu mēnesis,
pustuksnesis,
medus mēnesis,
tiesnesis,
ķīsis,
āpsis,
rudens mēnesis,
siena mēnesis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic; compare Lithuanian opšrùs, Old Prussian wobsdus. The source may be Proto-Indo-European *op- (“to do, carry out”), from which Latvian regionalism āpēties (“work hard”) (compare Sanskrit अपस् (ápas, “work, organizing”), Latin opus (“work, task”)). This name would be justified by the badger's well-made burrows. A parallel case is German Dachs (“badger”) from Proto-Indo-European *tek- (“weave, build”). See: Latin Nouns '
opus', German Nouns '
Dachs'.
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