māte – Latvian noun declension

Noun: māte
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Gender: Declension:

Singular

Nominative	māte
Accusative	māti
Genitive	mātes
Dative	mātei
Instrumental	māti
Locative	mātē
Vocative	māt

Plural

Nominative	mātes
Accusative	mātes
Genitive	māšu
Dative	mātēm
Instrumental	mātēm
Locative	mātēs
Vocative	mātes

Sample Sentences

mātes mīlestība, rūpes, piens (mother's love, care, milk)
māte un bērns (mother and child)
daudzbērnu māte (a many-child mother)
vientuļā māte (single (= unmarried) mother)
mātes valoda (mother tongue (= native language))
mātes un bērna aizsardzība (mother and child protection)
bērni palikuši bez mātes (children left without a mother)
aizstāt kādam māti (to replace someone's mother)
būt mātes cerībās (to be in hope of mother (= to be pregnant))
mazā meitenīte kā mazs cinītis sēdēja mātei blakus (the little girl, like a little hill, sat next to (her) mother)
briežu, vilku, lāču māte (deer, wolf, bear mother (= female))
bišu māte (queen bee)
piesēdies, māt! (take a seat, mother!)
meža māte (forest mother (= a mythical being))

Nouns inflected like māte

maijpuķīte, māte,

Etymology

1. From Proto-Balto-Slavic *mā́ˀtē, from Proto-Indo-European *méh₂tēr (“mother”), where the initial *ma, *meh₂ may have originally been a child's call or nursery word.
2. Cognates include Lithuanian mótė (“woman, wife”, dialectally also “mother”), móteris (“woman”), mótina (“mother”), Old Prussian mūti, muti, mothe, Sudovian ate (< *māte), Proto-Slavic *mati (Russian мать (matʹ), Belarusian маць (macʹ), Ukrainian ма́ти (máty), Bulgarian ма́ти (máti), ма́тер (máter), Czech máti, archaic Polish mać), Proto-Germanic *mōdēr (Old Saxon mōdar, Old English mōdor, English mother, Old Norse móðir, Old High German muoter, German Mutter), Sanskrit मातृ (mā́tṛ), Avestan 𐬨𐬁𐬙𐬀𐬭 (mātar), Ancient Greek μήτηρ (mḗtēr), Doric μάτηρ (mátēr), Latin māter. See: Russian Nouns 'мать', Czech Nouns 'máti', Polish Nouns 'mać', Old English Nouns 'mōdor', English Nouns 'mother', Old Norse Nouns 'móðir', German Nouns 'Mutter', Ancient Greek Nouns 'μήτηρ', Latin Nouns 'māter'.