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Latvian
Etymology
From sens (“ancient”), made into a 2nd-declension noun. The c suggests a dialectal origin, from those dialects where ns > nc. Alternatively, it may have come from an earlier *sentis, via genitive *senša > senča. There may have been influence from the c in vecis (“old man”).[1]
Noun
sencis m (2nd declension, feminine form: sence)
- (usually in the plural) ancestor (ancient relatives, e.g., the originators of an ethnic group, a clan, a family)
- tāli senči ― distant ancestors
- dzimtas senči ― (family, clan) ancestors
- senču dievi ― ancestral gods
- senču kults ― ancestor worship
- (paleontology) ancestor (species of plants or animals from an earlier time period, from which modern species have evolved)
- zirga sencis ― the ancestor of the horse
- putnu senči ― the ancestors of the birds
- (colloquial) parents (syn. vecāki)
- dzīvot uz senču rēķina ― to live at (one's) parents' expense
Declension
Declension of sencis (2nd declension)
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