vāks – Latvian noun declension

Latvian noun forms of vāks

Noun: vāks
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Gender: Declension:

Singular

Nominativevāks
Accusativevāku
Genitivevāka
Dativevākam
Instrumentalvāku
Locativevākā
Vocativevāk

Plural

Nominativevāki
Accusativevākus
Genitivevāku
Dativevākiem
Instrumentalvākiem
Locativevākos
Vocativevāki

Sample Sentences

  • lādes, šķirsta, čemodāna vāks (box, chest, suitcade lid)
  • atvāžams vāks (movable lid)
  • muca ar vāku (barrel with a lid)
  • motora vāks (motor cover (= hood, bonnet))
  • bagāžnieka vāks (trunk lid)
  • pulksteņa vāks (clock lid)
  • debesu, debess vāks (the celestial vault (= sky))
  • uzlikt kannai vāku (to put a lid on the can, pot)
  • noņemt, atvērt vāku (to remove, to open the lid)
  • katlam noņem vāku (remove the lid from the pot)
  • būtu nepieciešams akai iztaisīt jaunu vāku (it would be necessary to make a new lid for the well)
  • burtnīcu zilie vāki (the notebook's blue covers)
  • attēls uz ābeces vāka (a picture from the ABC book cover)
  • izlasīt no vāka līdz vākam (to read (a book) from cover to cover)
  • aktu, dokumentu vāki (paper, document folder)
  • iesiet, ielikt dokumentus vākos (to put documents in(to) folders)

Etymology

From the same stem as the verb vâkt (“to collect, to gather”): Proto-Baltic *vāk-, from Proto-Indo-European *wāk-, *wēk- (“to bend, to turn, to weave”), from a stem *wā- (“to move (away), to move so as to bend, turn”). The original meaning of the noun was thus “(something) woven”, from which “(woven) basket”, then “(basket) lid”, and finally “lid, cover”. Cognates include Lithuanian vókas (“eyelid; envelope; large woven basket”), Old Church Slavonic вѣко (věko), Russian ве́ко (véko, “eyelid”), dialectal also “eyelashes, basket lid, basket with lid”, Belarusian ве́ка (vjéka, “cover, lid”), Ukrainian ві́ко (víko, “eyelid, lid, cover”), Czech víko, Polish wieko. See: Czech Nouns 'víko', Polish Nouns 'wieko'.

Verbs referencing "vāks"

Finnish Nouns vakka.

Translations