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Latgalian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *daugjas. Cognate with Latvian daudz, Lithuanian daug and Proto-Slavic *dužь.
Pronunciation
Adverb
daudz
- much, a lot
References
- Nicole Nau (2011) A short grammar of Latgalian, München: LINCOM GmbH, →ISBN, page 33
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *daugjas, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰowgʰ-, the o-grade form of *dʰewgʰ- (“to affect, to press; to produce”), from the stem *dʰew-, a variant of *tew- (“to swell”). The meaning changed from “to swell, swollen” to “big” and then “a lot, much”. Note that the river name Daugava contains the same stem (originally “large river, with much water”). Cognates include Lithuanian daũg, Sudovian daug, Proto-Slavic *dužь (Russian дю́жий (djúžij, “heavy, strong, healthy”), dialectal ду́жий (dúžij), Belarusian ду́жа (dúža, “a lot”), ду́жы (dúžy, “strong”), Ukrainian ду́жий (dúžyj), ду́же (dúže, “very, a lot”), Czech duži (“strong”), Polish duży (“big, grown up”), duże (“much, many, a lot”)), Gothic 𐌳𐌰𐌿𐌲 (daug, “is useful”), Old High German tugan, German taugen (“to be useful”), Sanskrit दोग्धि (dógdhi) (< *dʰowgʰ-) “to milk” (< “to press”), Ancient Greek τεύχειν (teúkhein, “to prepare, to create”).
Pronunciation
Adverb
daudz (comp. vairāk, sup. visvairāk)
- much, a lot; adverbial form of daudzi
- much, many, a lot of (an indefinite large amount of)
- daudz ziedu ― many flowers
- daudz darba ― a lot of work
- daudz naudas ― a lot of money
- cik daudz dzīvnieku? ― how many animals?
- cik daudz laika? ― how much time?
- ļoti daudz piena ― very much milk, a lot of milk
- par daudz piena ― too much milk
- daudz ļaužu iet šeit garām ― a lot of people go by here
- (modifying a verb, or another adverb) much, a lot
- strādāt, runāt daudz ― to work, to talk a lot
- daudz liekāks, vecāks ― much biger, older
- daudz labāks par citiem ― much better than the others
- daudz agrāk nekā pērn ― much earlier than last year
- (used as a noun) much, a lot, usually of something important
- daudz palika neizteikts ― much remained unsaid
- skolēni uzzināja daudz ― the students found out a lot
- viņš ēd par daudz ― he eats too much
- lokomotīves vadītājam jāzina un jāprot daudz ― locomotive drivers must know and be able to do a lot (of things)
Usage notes
The adverbial form daudz has a comparative form vairāk, but the adjectival form daudzi has no corresponding comparative form (the term vairāki does exist, but it is an indefinite pronoun by itself, meaning “several”).
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