Noun: ūdrs
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | ūdrs |
| Accusative | ūdru |
| Genitive | ūdra |
| Dative | ūdram |
| Instrumental | ūdru |
| Locative | ūdrā |
| Vocative | ūdr |
Plural
| Nominative | ūdri |
| Accusative | ūdrus |
| Genitive | ūdru |
| Dative | ūdriem |
| Instrumental | ūdriem |
| Locative | ūdros |
| Vocative | ūdri |
Sample Sentences
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parastais ūdrs (common otter)
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ūdri ir sastopami gandrīz visos kontinentos (otters can be found in almost all continents)
Nouns inflected like ūdrs
gredzens,
greznums,
sniegs,
salāts,
sakars,
diftongs,
smaids,
sonets,
sivēns,
dienests,
piecnieks,
skudrs,
skvērs,
skaits,
pacients,
vilciens,
realizējums,
skatiens,
izskats,
spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From the same stem as ūdens: Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥, *wédōr (“water”), with a suffix *-ro, resulting in Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“water animal”), from which Proto-Baltic *ud-ra-s (or possibly Proto-Balto-Slavic *ū́ˀdrāˀ). The original meaning, “aquatic animal,” is attested in Sanskrit.
2. * Cognates include Lithuanian ū́dra, ū́dras (compare Latvian dialectal ūdris), Old Prussian udro, Proto-Slavic *vydra (Russian, Belarusian вы́дра (výdra), Bulgarian ви́дра (vídra), Czech vydra, Polish wydra, Upper Sorbian wudra), Proto-Germanic *otra < *utra (Old High German ottar, Old Norse otr, Old English otor, German Otter, Swedish utter, English otter), Sanskrit उद्र (udrá, “aquatic animal”), Ancient Greek ὕδρος (húdros), ὕδρα (húdra, “water serpent”), Latin lutra < *utrā- < *udrā- (French loutre, Romanian lutră, Italian, Portuguese lontra, Spanish lutria, nutria). See: Bulgarian Nouns '
ви́дра', Czech Nouns '
vydra', Polish Nouns '
wydra', Old Norse Nouns '
otr', Old English Nouns '
otor', German Nouns '
Otter', Swedish Nouns '
utter', English Nouns '
otter', Ancient Greek Nouns '
ὕδρος', Latin Nouns '
lutra', French Nouns '
loutre', Romanian Nouns '
lutră', Spanish Nouns '
lutria'.
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