Noun: stirna
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | stirna |
| Accusative | stirnu |
| Genitive | stirnas |
| Dative | stirnai |
| Instrumental | stirnu |
| Locative | stirnā |
| Vocative | stirna |
Plural
| Nominative | stirnas |
| Accusative | stirnas |
| Genitive | stirnu |
| Dative | stirnām |
| Instrumental | stirnām |
| Locative | stirnās |
| Vocative | stirnas |
Sample Sentences
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stirnu āzis, stirnuāzis, stirnāzis (male roe deer)
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stirnu buks (male roe deer)
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stirnu kaza, mātīte (female roe deer)
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stirnu mazulis (baby roe deer, fawn (syn. stirnēns))
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stirnas pašlaik aizliegts medīt (roe deer hunting is now prohibited)
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meitene viegla kā stirna (a girl as light as a roe deer)
Nouns inflected like stirna
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-Balto-Slavic *śírˀnāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂-néh₂, from *ḱerh₂- (“head, top, horn”), with an extra -n (from which also German Horn, English horn, Latin cornū and also cervus (“deer”)), which yielded Latvian archaic sirna.
2. The presence of a t has given rise to various explanations: st- < *ts-; metathesis (sirna > *srina) with t epenthesis; contamination or influence from some other animal name, e.g., taurs; borrowing from a Slavic language with changes to conform to Baltic pronunciation. More recently, it has been suggested that stirna might come from Proto-Indo-European *ser- (“red, pink”) in the reduced grade *sr̥-no-, causing t epenthesis in Baltic. Cognates include Lithuanian stìrna, Old Prussian sirwis, Proto-Slavic *sьrna. See: German Nouns '
Horn', English Nouns '
horn', Latin Nouns '
cornū'.
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