Kuldīg

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Etymology

Apparently from Latvian Kuldīga. According to Karulis possibly ultimately from the iterative form of kult (“to beat (eggs, etc.), thrash”) – kuldīt whence kuldīgs (“thrashing around, turbulent (of waters)”), the German Goldingen possibly from an earlier version *Kuldinga.[1]

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Kuldīg

  1. Kuldīga (a town in Courland, Latvia)

Declension

Declension of Kuldīg (157)
singular (ikšlug) plural (pǟgiņlug)
nominative (nominatīv) Kuldīg –
genitive (genitīv) Kuldīg –
partitive (partitīv) Kuldīgt –
dative (datīv) Kuldīgõn –
instrumental (instrumentāl) Kuldīgõks –
illative (illatīv) Kuldīgõ –
inessive (inesīv) Kuldīgõs
Kuldīgs 		–
elative (elatīv) Kuldīgõst
Kuldīgst 		–

References

  1. ^ Konstantīns Karulis (1992, 2001), Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca, Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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