zvirbulis
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Mājas zvirbuļi
See also: Zvirbulis
Latvian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *werb-, *werp- ( + -ulis; compare also vērpt (“to spin”)), from *wer- (“to turn, to twist, to bend”) (with an extra suffix -p, -b). The original meaning was a bird that turns and moves all the time. The initial z is either from an s-mobile, or the influence of some other term for this bird species (e.g., dialectal žīgurs, žvīgurs, žvingurs, apparently from the same stem as zviegt (“to neigh, to whinny”), q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian žvìrblis, Old Church Slavonic врабии (vrabii), Russian воробе́й (vorobéj), Bulgarian врабе́ц (vrabéc), Czech vrabec, Polish wróbel.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
zvirbulis m (2nd declension)
- sparrow (a number of bird species of the order Passeriformes, genus Passer)
- mājas zvirbulis ― house sparrow (Passer domesticus)
Declension
Declension of zvirbulis (2nd declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | zvirbulis | zvirbuļi |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | zvirbuli | zvirbuļus |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | zvirbuļa | zvirbuļu |
| dative (datīvs) | zvirbulim | zvirbuļiem |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | zvirbuli | zvirbuļiem |
| locative (lokatīvs) | zvirbulī | zvirbuļos |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | zvirbuli | zvirbuļi |
Derived terms
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “zvirbulis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN