krāce

See also: krācē

Latvian

Etymology

Related to the Latvian verb krākt (“to roar”). The most likely theory is that the word krāce was influenced by krākt (in, e.g., lengthening the ā), but that it originally was *krace, a form of dialectal kracis (“pole with crossbar (for drying grain)”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek-, *krok- (“to stand out, to stick out, to straighten oneself”), which would originally suggest the specific configuration of rapids in the Daugava river.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [kɾāːtsɛ]
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Noun

krāce f (5th declension)

rapids (section of a river where the water flows rapidly down, usually over or around rocks)
mutuļainas krāces ― rapids with eddies, whirlpools

šalc krāces ― the rapids rustle

krāču ūdens ― rapids water

laiva tuvojās krācēm ― the boat is approaching the rapids

upe gāžas lejup no kalniem, veidojot krāces un ūdenskritumus ― the river runs down from the mountains, forming rapids and waterfalls

Declension

Declension of krāce (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	krāce	krāces
accusative (akuzatīvs)	krāci	krāces
genitive (ģenitīvs)	krāces	krāču
dative (datīvs)	krācei	krācēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	krāci	krācēm
locative (lokatīvs)	krācē	krācēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	krāce	krāces

Synonyms

Related terms

References

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

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

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