uts – Latvian noun declension

Noun: uts
Hyphenation:

Gender: Feminine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	uts
Accusative	uti
Genitive	uts
Dative	utij
Instrumental	uti
Locative	utī
Vocative	uts

Plural

Nominative	utis
Accusative	utis
Genitive	utu
Dative	utīm
Instrumental	utīm
Locative	utīs
Vocative	utis

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like uts

Havaju zoss, žults, balss, takts, pirts, acs, ass, uts, vēsts, pilsētvalsts, cūkkūts, debess, maksts, cūku kūts, valsts, auss, kūts, zoss,

Etymology

1. Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *wēt-, *wet-, *ut-, from the stem *h₂weh₁- (“to blow”) (whence also Latin vējš (“wind”), q.v.) with a suffix -t.
2. J. Endzelīns, connecting this word to Old Prussian wutris (“blacksmith”), and noting the ancient link between the notions of “forging” and “pricking, piercing” (compare Latvian kalt (“to forge”), Russian коло́ть (kolótʹ, “to pierce”)), suggested that the original meaning of uts was “that which pierces; stitch.”
3. Another opinion is that uts (via *wet-, with a suffix -t) derives from Proto-Indo-European *eu- (“to feel”) (whence also Latvian just (“to feel”), q.v.), so that its original meaning would have been “that which is felt, which irritates”.
4. A third suggestion is that uts comes from Proto-Indo-European *lus-, *lewH- (“louse”) (compare Lithuanian liũlė, German Laus, English louse), a word which many daughter languages altered or abandoned, perhaps because of linguistic taboos; in the Baltic case, only the middle u would have been kept, with an extra suffix -t. Cognates include Lithuanian utėlė̃, dialectal utė̃, uti̇̀s. See: German Nouns 'Laus', English Nouns 'louse'.

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