Noun: klēts
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | klēts |
| Accusative | klēti |
| Genitive | klēts |
| Dative | klētij |
| Instrumental | klēti |
| Locative | klētī |
| Vocative | klēts |
Plural
| Nominative | klētis |
| Accusative | klētis |
| Genitive | klēšu |
| Dative | klētīm |
| Instrumental | klētīm |
| Locative | klētīs |
| Vocative | klētis |
Sample Sentences
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labības klēts (wheat granary)
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savest, sabērt ražu klētīs (to bring, to store the harvest in the granaries, barns)
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klēts apcirkņi (granary bins)
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Ukraina bija Padomju savienības maizes klēts (Ukraine was the breadbasket of the Soviet Union)
Nouns inflected like klēts
izkapts,
spēļu kārts,
pusnakts,
diennakts,
ģints,
kārts,
cilts,
nakts,
telts,
jakts,
klēts,
krūts,
plīts,
blakts,
klints,
nots,
Etymology
From the same stem as the verb celt (“to raise”); the actual form underwent metathesis (*keltis > *klētis > klēts). The original meaning was probably “raised, elevated building.” Cognates include Lithuanian klė́tis, Old Prussian clenan, Old Church Slavonic клѣть (klětĭ), Russian клеть (kletʹ), Belarusian клець (kljecʹ), Ukrainian кліть (klitʹ), Bulgarian клет (klet), Czech klec, Polish kleć. (Some researchers believe that the Slavic terms result from an early borrowing from Baltic.) See: Russian Nouns '
клеть', Bulgarian Nouns '
клет', Czech Nouns '
klec', Polish Nouns '
kleć'.
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