vērsis

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See also: versis, verŝis, Vērsis, and veršis

Latvian

Vērši

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wers-, *wr̥s- (“male”). Cognates include Lithuanian ver̃šis (“calf; (dialectal) ox”), Old Prussian werstian (“calf”) (maybe *wersistian?), Sanskrit वृष (vṛṣa, “bull; male”), वृषन् (vṛṣan, “man; stallion, ox”), Avestan 𐬬𐬀𐬭𐬱𐬥𐬌 (varšni, “ram”), Latin verrēs (“boar”).[1]

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Noun

vērsis m (2nd declension)

  1. ox (male cattle, usually castrated, often used as a beast of burden)
    darba vērsis ― working ox
    vēršu pajūgs ― oxcart
    vērša gaļa ― ox (= cow) meat, beef
    vēršu cīņas ― ox fight (= bullfight, in Spain)

Declension

Declension of vērsis (2nd declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) vērsis vērši
accusative (akuzatīvs) vērsi vēršus
genitive (ģenitīvs) vērša vēršu
dative (datīvs) vērsim vēršiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) vērsi vēršiem
locative (lokatīvs) vērsī vēršos
vocative (vokatīvs) vērsi vērši

See also

References

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