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Apparently borrowed from Estoniankajakas(“seagull”), dialectal kajak, but, given Latviankaija(“seagull”), and since ak is a formative element often found in Indo-European animal names, Latviankajaks may have been the original word and Estoniankajakas the borrowing.[1]
mazāk pie mums Latvijā ligzdo kajaks, un tam līdzīgā, krietni prāvākā sudrabkaija ― less (often) the common gull nests by us in Latvia, and also the similar, (but) much larger, silver gull
