vidus – Latvian noun declension

Latvian noun forms of vidus

Noun: vidus
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine Declension:

Singular

Nominativevidus
Accusativevidu
Genitivevidus
Dativevidum
Instrumentalvidu
Locativevidū
Vocativevidus

Plural

Nominativevidi
Accusativevidus
Genitivevidu
Dativevidiem
Instrumentalvidiem
Locativevidos
Vocativevidi

Sample Sentences

  • ezera, meža, dārza vidus (the middle of the lake, forest, garden)
  • pagalma vidus (the middle of the backyard)
  • vidus dialekts (the middle dialect (on which Standard Latvian is based))
  • braukt pa ceļa vidu (to ride by the middle of the road)
  • nolikt svečturi galda vidū (to drop the candlestick in the middle of the table)
  • sākt šķirstīt žurnālu no vidus (to start leafing through the magazine from the middle)
  • jūras vidū mēs šūpojamies, Nāves medībām izbēgušie (we were rocking in the middle of the sea, having escaped Death's hunt)
  • nakts vidus (the middle of the night)
  • ziemas vidus (the middle of winter)
  • spēles, izrādes vidus (the middle of the game, of the show)
  • karsto dienas vidu visi zirgi pavadīja krūmos, bet arī te nebija miera no mušām (all horses spent the middle of a hot day in the bushes, but also (= even) there there was no peace from the flies)
  • tuvojās oktobra vidus, un bija jāsāk domāt par ziemas mītni (the middle of october was approaching, and one had to start thinking about winter quarters)
  • vecmāmiņa ar īpašu nazīti izgreiza āboliem vidus un piebrēa tos ar cukuru un kanēli (grandma cut the middles of the apples with a special knife and poured sugar and cinnamon on them)
  • tur agrāk vējš locīja vecu, līku vītolu ar izpuvušu vidu (there, before, the wind would bned an old, crooked willow with a rotten middle)
  • draugu vidū (among friends)
  • kad Zelma bija mūsu vidū,... (when Zelma was among us, in our midst,...)
  • strādnieku vidū jau droši vien klīst visnegudrākās baumas (among workers run probably the most nonsensical rumors)
  • ieguvām vairāk nekā 5000 senlietu; to vidū ir unikāls zobens (we obtained more than 5000 artifacts; among them there is a unique sword)
  • Emma klusēdama aplika roku ap Kristīnes vidu (Emma silently put (her) hand (= arm) around Kristīnes waist)
  • viņš gāja vēl; zāle sniedzās līdz vidum (he went further; the grass reached till (his body's) middle, waist)
  • tik daudz Ēriks nebija radis strādāt, tādēļ reizēm viņam iesāpējās vidus (Ēriks was not used to working so much, so sometimes his middle, waist would begin to hurt)
  • aizgāja uz citu vidu dzīvot (he went to live in another region, area)
  • Rozenberģis vēl ciemošoties divas nedēļas šai vidū (Rozenberģis supposedly stayed for two weeks as a visitor in that region)

Nouns inflected like vidus

dienvidus, ledus, vidus, apvidus, lietus, tirgus, virsus,

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *widús, from Proto-Indo-European *widʰu- (“forest, wood”). The semantic change from “forest” to “region, area (between villages)” and to “middle, between” probably comes from a situation in which the areas between villages are mostly occupied by forest (cf. the opposite change, from “middle” to “forest,” in Latvian mežs; these two words, mežs and vidus apparently swapped their meanings). Cognates include Lithuanian vidùs (“interior, middle”), Old Prussian widus (“boot stitch”); in the original sense of “forest,” also Old Irish fid (“wood, firewood, forest”), Old Norse viðr (“forest, bushes; tree, stump, log, mast; (adj.) far, wide, big”), Old High German witu, wito (“firewood, wood”), Old English widu, wudu (“forest, bushes, tree”), English wood. See: Latvian Nouns 'mežs', Old Norse Nouns 'viðr', Old English Nouns 'widu', English Nouns 'wood'.

Verbs referencing "vidus"

English Nouns wide.

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