grīva

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See also: griva and grīvā

Latvian

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Grīva

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *grī́ˀwāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷriHwéh₂.[1][2]

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Noun

grīva f (4th declension)

  1. estuary, mouth (the place at which a river reaches the sea)
    padziļināt upes grīvu ― to deepen the river's estuary
    pie Daugavas grīvas bija pārāk daudz zvejnieku ― at the mouth of the Daugava there were too many fishermen

Declension

Declension of grīva (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) grīva grīvas
accusative (akuzatīvs) grīvu grīvas
genitive (ģenitīvs) grīvas grīvu
dative (datīvs) grīvai grīvām
instrumental (instrumentālis) grīvu grīvām
locative (lokatīvs) grīvā grīvās
vocative (vokatīvs) grīva grīvas

References

  1. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “grīva”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 535: “*gríʔwaʔ”
  2. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “grīva”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎ (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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