mazgātava

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Latvian

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Mazgātava

Etymology

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A word coined from mazgāt (to wash) +‎ -ava by Juris Alunāns in 1857.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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mazgātava f (4th declension)

  1. washing room; laundromat (a place, e.g. a room or a building, where one washes, e.g. clothes)
    veļas mazgātavaclothes washing room, laundromat
    jau sestdien viņš bija apmeklējis veļas mazgātavu un sagādājis sev tīru veļuon Saturday he had looked for a laundromat and had gotten his clothes clean
    netīrie trauki tiek novietoti uz speciāla konveijera un paši nonāk mazgātavāthe dirty dishes are placed on a special conveyor belt and come into the washing room

Declension

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References

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