Noun: eža
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | eža |
| Accusative | ežu |
| Genitive | ežas |
| Dative | ežai |
| Instrumental | ežu |
| Locative | ežā |
| Vocative | eža |
Plural
| Nominative | ežas |
| Accusative | ežas |
| Genitive | ežu |
| Dative | ežām |
| Instrumental | ežām |
| Locative | ežās |
| Vocative | ežas |
Sample Sentences
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uz ežas bija samesti no lauka novāktie akmeņi (stones collected from the field were thrown on the balk)
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pa ežu starp miežu un zirņu laukiem kāds jau aizgājis (someone has already gone by the balk between the barley and pea fields)
Nouns inflected like eža
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
1. From Proto-Baltic *ež-i̯ā-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁eǵʰ- (“edge, border”).
2. Cognates include Lithuanian ežià, dialectal ežė̃, ezi̇̀s (compare 17th-century Latvian ezis), Proto-Slavic *ězъ (Russian regional еж (jež, “weir, woven river dam for catching fish”), Belarusian яз (jaz, “weir, woven river dam for catching fish”), Bulgarian яз (jaz, “dam, weir”), Czech jez (“dam, weir”), Polish jaz (“mill dam, weir”)), Old Armenian եզր (ezr, “coast, edge, border”). See: Bulgarian Nouns '
яз', Czech Nouns '
jez', Polish Nouns '
jaz'.
Verbs referencing "eža"
Latvian Nouns
ezers.
Translations