ūdrs

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See also: UDRS

Latvian

 ūdrs on Latvian Wikipedia
Ūdrs

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Etymology

From the same stem as ūdens: Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥, *wédōr (“water”), with a suffix *-ro, resulting in Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“water animal”), from which Proto-Baltic *ud-ra-s (or possibly Proto-Balto-Slavic *ū́ˀdrāˀ[1]). The original meaning, “aquatic animal,” is attested in Sanskrit.

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Noun

ūdrs m (1st declension)

  1. otter (any aquatic or marine mustelid)
    parastais ūdrs ― common otter
    ūdri ir sastopami gandrīz visos kontinentos ― otters can be found in almost all continents

Declension

Declension of ūdrs (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) ūdrs ūdri
accusative (akuzatīvs) ūdru ūdrus
genitive (ģenitīvs) ūdra ūdru
dative (datīvs) ūdram ūdriem
instrumental (instrumentālis) ūdru ūdriem
locative (lokatīvs) ūdrā ūdros
vocative (vokatīvs) ūdr ūdri

References

  1. ^ Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook‎, Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
  2. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ūdrs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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