Noun: desa
Hyphenation:
Gender:
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | desa |
| Accusative | desu |
| Genitive | desas |
| Dative | desai |
| Instrumental | desu |
| Locative | desā |
| Vocative | desa |
Plural
| Nominative | desas |
| Accusative | desas |
| Genitive | desu |
| Dative | desām |
| Instrumental | desām |
| Locative | desās |
| Vocative | desas |
Sample Sentences
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cūkgaļas desa (pork sausage)
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aknu desa (liver sausage)
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žāvētās desas (dried sausages)
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desās pārstrādā gaļu un iekšējos orgānus (one processes meat and internal organs into sausages)
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brālis skubināja, lai pamērcējot desu sinepēs (the brother urged for the sausage to be seasoned in mustard)
Nouns inflected like desa
tulkošana,
secība,
sezona,
saruna,
sajūta,
samaņa,
smarža,
skudra,
sklēra,
muļķība,
pirmdiena,
bebrāda,
skaudība,
kaklarota,
psihiatrija,
vīksna,
vīnoga,
izmaksa,
sešpaka,
melnaugļu aronija, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *deš-, from Proto-Indo-European *deḱ- (“to cut, to sever, to split into fibers”). A minority opinion derives desa from a different stem *deḱ- (“to remove, to take out”). Cognates include Lithuanian dešrà, dialectal dešerà, Gothic 𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻 (tagl, “hair”), Old Norse tagl (“horsehair”), Old High German zagal (“tail, rod”), Old English tægl (“tail”), English tail, Sanskrit देशा (deśā, “fringe of cloth; lamp wick”). See: Gothic Nouns '
𐍄𐌰𐌲𐌻', Old Norse Nouns '
tagl', Old English Nouns '
tægl', English Nouns '
tail'.
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