lasis – Latvian noun declension

Noun: lasis
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	lasis
Accusative	lasi
Genitive	laša
Dative	lasim
Instrumental	lasi
Locative	lasī
Vocative	lasi

Plural

Nominative	laši
Accusative	lašus
Genitive	lašu
Dative	lašiem
Instrumental	lašiem
Locative	lašos
Vocative	laši

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like lasis

vērsis, ķeksis, ķirsis, puteņu mēnesis, papuves mēnesis, baložu mēnesis, meteņu mēnesis, sērsnu mēnesis, salnas mēnesis, sila virsis, sējas mēnesis, ziņnesis, lapu mēnesis, pustuksnesis, medus mēnesis, tiesnesis, ķīsis, āpsis, rudens mēnesis, siena mēnesis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)

Etymology

1. Traditionally related to Latvian lāse (“drop (of liquid)”) (dialectally attested as lase, lasis), perhaps because of the drop-like little spots on a salmon's scales, from Proto-Indo-European *laḱ- (“to sprinkle, to spatter”).
2. Another suggestion is that this term comes from Proto-Indo-European *lek- (“to jump, to leap”), referring to the mating habits of salmons, swimming and leaping upstream; but the final k leaves the s in the Baltic and Slavic forms unexplained. One would have to assume parallel forms *lek-, *leḱ- for this stem.
3. Cognates include Lithuanian lãšis, lašiša, Old Prussian lalasso (probably a misspelled lasasso), Russian лосо́сь (losósʹ), Czech losos, Polish łosoś, Proto-Germanic *lahsaz (Old High German lahs, German Lachs, Swedish lax, English lax, lox), Tocharian B laksi (“fish”), Ossetian лӕсӕг (læsæg, “salmon”). See: Czech Nouns 'losos', Polish Nouns 'łosoś', German Nouns 'Lachs', Swedish Nouns 'lax', English Nouns 'lax'.

Verbs referencing "lasis"

English Nouns lax, Old English Nouns leax.

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