Noun: virsis
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | virsis |
| Accusative | virsi |
| Genitive | virša |
| Dative | virsim |
| Instrumental | virsi |
| Locative | virsī |
| Vocative | virsi |
Plural
| Nominative | virši |
| Accusative | viršus |
| Genitive | viršu |
| Dative | viršiem |
| Instrumental | viršiem |
| Locative | viršos |
| Vocative | virši |
Sample Sentences
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sila virsis (heather)
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viršu medus (heather honey)
Nouns inflected like virsis
vērsis,
ķeksis,
ķirsis,
puteņu mēnesis,
papuves mēnesis,
baložu mēnesis,
meteņu mēnesis,
sērsnu mēnesis,
salnas mēnesis,
sila virsis,
sējas mēnesis,
ziņnesis,
lapu mēnesis,
pustuksnesis,
medus mēnesis,
tiesnesis,
ķīsis,
āpsis,
rudens mēnesis,
siena mēnesis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *wirš-, from Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ-, from the stem *wer- (“to bend”). The original name apparently made reference to the small bushes of this plant, full of little bent, twisted branches. Cognates include Lithuanian vi̇̀ržis, vi̇̀ržės, Proto-Slavic *versъ, *verzъ (Russian ве́рес (véres), ве́реск (véresk), Belarusian ве́рас (vjéras), Ukrainian ве́рес (véres), Czech vřes, Polish wrzos). See: Czech Nouns '
vřes', Polish Nouns '
wrzos'.
Verbs referencing "virsis"
Irish Nouns
fraoch.
Translations