krāce

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See also: krācē

Latvian

Krāces

Etymology

Related to the Latvian verb krākt (to roar). The most likely theory is that the word krāce was influenced by krākt (in, e.g., lengthening the ā), but that it originally was *krace, a form of dialectal kracis (pole with crossbar (for drying grain)), from Proto-Indo-European *krek-, *krok- (to stand out, to stick out, to straighten oneself), which would originally suggest the specific configuration of rapids in the Daugava river.[1]

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Noun

krāce f (5th declension)

  1. rapids (section of a river where the water flows rapidly down, usually over or around rocks)
    mutuļainas krācesrapids with eddies, whirlpools
    šalc krācesthe rapids rustle
    krāču ūdensrapids water
    laiva tuvojās krācēmthe boat is approaching the rapids
    upe gāžas lejup no kalniem, veidojot krāces un ūdenskritumusthe river runs down from the mountains, forming rapids and waterfalls

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References

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