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English
Pronunciation
Noun
pats
- plural of pat
Verb
pats
- third-person singular simple present indicative of pat
Anagrams
- apts., ATSP, ATPs, TPAs, ptas., PTSA, TAPs, past, ap'ts, stap, PTAs, Apts, TAPS, PSAT, taps, spat, APTS, apts, Taps, APTs
Dutch
Etymology
Onomatopoeic.
Pronunciation
Interjection
pats
- clap, crash
Noun
pats m or f (plural patsen)
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French
Noun
pats m
- plural of pat
Latvian
Pronoun
pats m
- self
Declension
Synonyms
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *patis, from Proto-Indo-European *pótis (“master, ruler; husband”). It is thought that the "lord" meaning is a derivative of an even older "self" meaning.[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
pàts m stress pattern 4
- husband
- (singular masculine only) oneself: himself, myself, yourself
Declension
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References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “pats I, pats II”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 346