milzis – Latvian noun declension

Noun: milzis
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	milzis
Accusative	milzi
Genitive	milža
Dative	milzim
Instrumental	milzi
Locative	milzī
Vocative	milzi

Plural

Nominative	milži
Accusative	milžus
Genitive	milžu
Dative	milžiem
Instrumental	milžiem
Locative	milžos
Vocative	milži

Sample Sentences

ļauns milzis (evil giant)
milža spēks (a giant's strength)
milžu cīņa (fight, clash of giants)
milzis skatījās uz puiku kā suns uz skudru, kura rāpo viņam starp izstieptām ķepām (the giant looked at the boy like a dog at an ant that crawls between his outstretched legs)
vislielākais milzis bijis 2,8 metru augumā (the largest giant was 2.8 meters tall)
ozols bija īsts milzis (the oak was a real giant)
vilku milzis (giant wolf, wolf giant)
gara milzis (artistic (lit. spiritual) giant (= outstanding artist))
Mēdeja - viens no sarežģītākajiem sieviešu tēliem... antīkās dramaturģijas milža Eiripīda traģēdijā (Medea is one of the most complex female characters... in the tragedy by Euripides, the giant of ancient dramaturgy)
sevišķi tuvas attiecības Čehovam izveidojas ar Maksimu Gorkiju, Ļevu Tolstoju un citiem tā laika gara milžiem (Tchekov estrablished especially close relations with Maksim Gorki, Lev Tolstoy and other contemporary spiritual giants)
Āfrikas milzis Kilimandžāro (Kilimanjaro, the giant of Africa)
kombināts nodrošina ar sērskābi visas Bulgārijas rūpniecības nozares... šo rūpniecības milzi uzcēla vienā gadā (the plant will provide the whole Bulgarian industrial sector with sulphuric acid... this industrial giant was built in one year)
sarkanie milži (red giants)

Nouns inflected like milzis

pīlādzis, skrūvgriezis, gliemezis, drudzis, degunradzis, klaudzis, dūzis, iezis, nazis, vēzis, stirnāzis, lapgrauzis, stirnu āzis, gastūzis, siena drudzis, ledlauzis, stirnuāzis, milzis, mežāzis, riekstrozis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

Derived from the verb milzt (“to swell, to grow, to increase”), present tense melzu, from Proto-Baltic *melž-, *milž-, from Proto-Indo-European *melǵʰ, *ml̥ǵʰ-, from a stem *mel- (“big, strong”), whence also Latvian dialectal milns (“many, much, a lot”), Ancient Greek μάλα (mála, “very, a lot”), perhaps Latin melior (“better”). Cognates include Lithuanian mil̃žinas. See: Latin Nouns 'melior'.