pats

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See also: Pats, PATs, päts, and Päts

English

Pronunciation

Noun

pats

  1. plural of pat

Verb

pats

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of pat

Anagrams

Dutch

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

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Interjection

pats

  1. clap, crash

Noun

pats m or f (plural patsen)

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French

Noun

pats m

  1. plural of pat

Latvian

Pronoun

pats m

  1. self

Declension

Masculine Singular Feminine Singular Masculine Plural Feminine Plural
Nominative pats pati paši pašas
Accusative pašu pašu pašus pašas
Genitive paša pašas pašu pašu
Dative pašam pašai pašiem pašām
Instrumental pašu pašu pašiem pašām
Locative pašā pašā pašos pašās

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

  1. husband
  2. (singular masculine only) oneself: himself, myself, yourself

Declension

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References

  1. ^ 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