cirslis

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Latvian

Cirslis

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Etymology

Derived from cirst (“to cut, to hew, to chop”), from Proto-Baltic *kir-, from Proto-Indo-European *ker-, *kr̥- (“to cut”). The semantic evolution was probably “to cut” > “to chop”, also “to gnaw, to bite, to pierce”, whence cirslis “gnawer”. Cognates include Lithuanian kar̃stas, kertùkas, kirstukas, Ukrainian черте́ц (čertéc).[1]

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Noun

cirslis m (2nd declension)

  1. shrew (mammal sp.)
    ūdens cirslis ― water shrew
    mazais cirslis ― small shrew
    ciršļa ala ― shrew burrow

Declension

Declension of cirslis (2nd declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) cirslis ciršļi
accusative (akuzatīvs) cirsli ciršļus
genitive (ģenitīvs) ciršļa ciršļu
dative (datīvs) cirslim ciršļiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) cirsli ciršļiem
locative (lokatīvs) cirslī ciršļos
vocative (vokatīvs) cirsli ciršļi

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “cirslis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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