tukls
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Latvian
Etymology
Derived from tukt (“to swell, to become thick, fat”), a dialectal variant of tūkt (“to swell”) (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian tuklùs (“quickly fattened; fat, stout; overweight”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
tukls (definite tuklais, comparative tuklāks, superlative vistuklākais, adverb tukli)
- (of people, animals, body parts) fat, chubby, plump, corpulent (having a relatively thick layer of fat)
- tukls cilvēks ― fat, corpulent person
- tukli vaigi, pirksti ― fat cheecks, fingers
- tukls sivēns ― fat piglet
- pa laukiem skraidīja tuklās lauku peles ― through the fields ran fat field mice
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of tukls
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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singular (vienskaitlis) |
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| nominative (nominatīvs) | tukls | tukli | tukla | tuklas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | tuklu | tuklus | tuklu | tuklas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | tukla | tuklu | tuklas | tuklu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | tuklam | tukliem | tuklai | tuklām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | tuklu | tukliem | tuklu | tuklām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | tuklā | tuklos | tuklā | tuklās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
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References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “tukls”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN