avots

Latvian

Etymology

Possibly borrowed from Livonian ovāt (“spring, hole in the ice”), related to Finnish avanto.

Noun

avots m (1st declension)

1. spring (water source)
2. source
3. channel

Declension

Declension of avots (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	avots	avoti
accusative (akuzatīvs)	avotu	avotus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	avota	avotu
dative (datīvs)	avotam	avotiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	avotu	avotiem
locative (lokatīvs)	avotā	avotos
vocative (vokatīvs)	avot	avoti