pātaga

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Latvian

Pātaga

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian пото́г (potóg, stick, club), a dialectal variant of standard Russian бато́г (batóg), from бат (bat, stick, club). This word is first mentioned in 17th-century dictionaries, already in its modern form and with its modern meaning.[1]

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Noun

pātaga f (4th declension)

  1. whip, lash, knout (tool, usually a flexible rod, often with a rope, for hiting animals, people, etc., in order to incite them to work, or to punish them)
    gana pātagashepherd's whip
    ādas pātagaleather whip
    dresētāja pātaga(animal) tamer's whip
    uzšaut ar pātagato lash with the whip
    jājama pātaga, jājampātagariding whip
    zirgs, no negaidītā pātagas cirtiena sāpēs salēcies, rāvās uz priekšuthe horse, jumping from the pain of the unexpected whiplash, pulled forward
    viņš nekad nebūtu ticējis, ka Erna spēj būt pret viņu tik salta un skarba; ik vārdam cirta pretī kā ar pātaguhe would never have believed that Erna could be so cold and harsh toward him; with every word she struck as if with a whip

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References

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