pūt
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See also: Appendix:Variations of "put"
Latvian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pūteiti.
Cognates include Lithuanian pūti (“id.”), Gothic fūls, Old High German fūl, German faul (“rotten, rancid, lazy”), Old Norse feyja (“to cause to rot”), Sanskrit पूयति (pūyati, “rots, smells”), Ancient Greek πῡ́θω (pū́thō, “I cause to rot”), Latin pūteō (“I rot, smell rotten”), pūtidus, puter (“rotten”), Persian پوسیدن (“to rot”).
Past stem puv- derivations: puve, puvekļi, puveši, puvums, papuve, regional puvēns (= puveklis "a chunk of rotten matter").
Pronunciation
Verb
pūt (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present pūstu, pūsti, pūst, past puvu)
- to rot
Conjugation
conjugation of pūt
| INDICATIVE (īstenības izteiksme) | IMPERATIVE (pavēles izteiksme) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Present (tagadne) |
Past (pagātne) |
Future (nākotne) | |||
| 1st pers. sg. | es | pūstu | puvu | pūšu | — |
| 2nd pers. sg. | tu | pūsti | puvi | pūsi | pūsti |
| 3rd pers. sg. | viņš, viņa | pūst | puva | pūs | lai pūst |
| 1st pers. pl. | mēs | pūstam | puvām | pūsim | pūsim |
| 2nd pers. pl. | jūs | pūstat | puvāt | pūsiet, pūsit |
pūstiet |
| 3rd pers. pl. | viņi, viņas | pūst | puva | pūs | lai pūst |
| RENARRATIVE (atstāstījuma izteiksme) | PARTICIPLES (divdabji) | ||||
| Present | pūstot | Present Active 1 (Adj.) | pūstošs | ||
| Past | esot puvis | Present Active 2 (Adv.) | pūdams | ||
| Future | pūšot | Present Active 3 (Adv.) | pūstot | ||
| Imperative | lai pūstot | Present Active 4 (Obj.) | pūstam | ||
| CONDITIONAL (vēlējuma izteiksme) | Past Active | puvis | |||
| Present | pūtu | Present Passive | pūstams | ||
| Past | būtu puvis | Past Passive | pūts | ||
| DEBITIVE (vajadzības izteiksme) | NOMINAL FORMS | ||||
| Indicative | (būt) jāpūst | Infinitive (nenoteiksme) | pūt | ||
| Conjunctive 1 | esot jāpūst | Negative Infinitive | nepūt | ||
| Conjunctive 2 | jāpūstot | Verbal noun | pūšana | ||
Derived terms
Verb
pūt
- inflection of pūst:
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pūt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN