From the al- stem of alszik (“to sleep”) + -va (adverbial-participle suffix).
alva
From Proto-Baltic *alu-ā-, *alwā-, from a derived form *al-əu-, *al-u- of Proto-Indo-European *al- (“to shine, to light”).
Cognates include Lithuanian álvas, ãlavas, Old Prussian alwis (“lead”), Old Church Slavonic олово (olovo, “lead”), Russian and Ukrainian олово (olovo, “tin”), Bulgarian олово (olovo, “lead”), Czech olovo (“lead”), Polish ołów (“lead”), and, from a different derived form of *al-, Ancient Greek ἀλφός (alphós, “white rash”), Latin albus (“dull white”).
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alva f (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | alva | — |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | alvu | — |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | alvas | — |
dative (datīvs) | alvai | — |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | alvu | — |
locative (lokatīvs) | alvā | — |
vocative (vokatīvs) | alva | — |
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
alva
Even a-stem, lv-lvv gradation | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | alva | |||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | alvva | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Nominative | alva | alvvat | ||||||||||||||||||||
Accusative | alvva | alvvaid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Genitive | alvva | alvvaid | ||||||||||||||||||||
Illative | alvii | alvvaide | ||||||||||||||||||||
Locative | alvvas | alvvain | ||||||||||||||||||||
Comitative | alvvain | alvvaiguin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Essive | alvan | |||||||||||||||||||||
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From Vulgar Latin *alba, the feminine of albus (“white”).
alva f (plural alvas)
From Old Galician-Portuguese alva, from Vulgar Latin *alba, from the feminine of Classical Latin albus (“white”). Cognate with Galician alba.
alva f (plural alvas)
alva
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
alva f (Cyrillic spelling алва)