trusis

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See also: trušis

Latin

Participle

trūsīs

  1. dative/ablative masculine/feminine/neuter plural of trūsus

Latvian

 trusis on Latvian Wikipedia
Trusis

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Etymology

Borrowed from Belarusian трусь (trusʹ), or perhaps from Polish truś. This word is first mentioned in 17th-century dictionaries as truš, trušs, later (18th–19th centuries) in competition with other borrowings (kraliņš from Russian кролик (krolik) or kaninķenis, kaninķins from German Kaninchen). In the 19th century, the most frequent forms were trusis and trušis, also truše; only in the 20th century did the current form become dominant.[1]

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Noun

trusis m (2nd declension)

  1. rabbit (esp. Oryctolagus cuniculus)
    mājas trusisdomestic rabbit
    savvaļas trusiswild rabbit
    trušu vilarabbit fur
    trušu ādarabbit skin, leather

Usage notes

In English, rabbit is the preferred word when one does not want to distinguish rabbits from hares; in Latvian, zaķis (hare) is preferred, and trusis (rabbit) is less frequent. (Note that the Latvian Easter Bunny is in fact the Easter Hare.)

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References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “trusis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN