Noun: veļi
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
Plural
| Nominative | veļi |
| Accusative | veļus |
| Genitive | veļu |
| Dative | veļiem |
| Instrumental | veļiem |
| Locative | veļos |
| Vocative | veļi |
Sample Sentences
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veļu valstība, valsts (the realm of the dead)
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veļu kults (cult of the dead)
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veļu laiks (time of the dead (time in October when the dead return to visit their descendants))
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aiziet veļos (to go to the dead (i.e., to die))
Nouns inflected like veļi
dienvidi,
saulgrieži,
putekšņi,
ziemeļi,
kūts mēsli,
griesti,
minerālmēsli,
kūtsmēsli,
austrumi,
īsviļņi,
mikroviļņi,
kāposti,
dubļi,
mieži,
milti,
murgi,
tauki,
mēsli,
kaļķi,
pelni, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Baltic *welias, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₃- (“tear; pluck; rob; hurt; kill”).
2. Cognates include Lithuanian vẽlės, vė̃lės (singular vėlė̃, velė̃; compare also veliónis (“dead”)), Proto-Germanic *walaz (“dead”) (Old Norse valr (“fallen in the battlefield”), Valhǫll (“abode of fallen warriors”), valkyrja (“Valkyrie”) (i.e., those who led the dead warriors to Odin), Old High German wal (“battlefield”)), Tocharian A wäl (“to die”), walu (“dead one”). See: Old Norse Nouns '
valr'.
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