ruds
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English
Verb
ruds
- third-person singular simple present indicative of rud
Anagrams
Latvian
Alternative forms
- (dialectal form) rauds
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *raudas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).
Cognates include Lithuanian rùdas (“brown, reddish brown”), Proto-Slavic *rudъ (Russian рудый (rudyj, “bright red”), Ukrainian ру́дий (rúdyj, “red, red-haired”), Czech rudý, Polish rudy), German rot, English red, Latin ruber (“red”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
ruds (definite rudais, comparative rudāks, superlative visrudākais, adverb rudi)
- (of, e.g., hair) red, red-haired; reddish yellow, brownish yellow with a tone of red
- ruds runcis ― red tomcat
- ruda lapsa ― red fox
- rudas acis ― red eyes
- ruda bārda ― red beard
- rudi mati ― red hair
- ruda ķēve ― red, chestnut mare
- priežu rudie stumbri ― red pine trunks
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of ruds
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| nominative (nominatīvs) | ruds | rudi | ruda | rudas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | rudu | rudus | rudu | rudas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | ruda | rudu | rudas | rudu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | rudam | rudiem | rudai | rudām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | rudu | rudiem | rudu | rudām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | rudā | rudos | rudā | rudās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Derived terms
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ruds”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN