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pūt

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Latvian

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Etymology

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From Proto-Balto-Slavic *pūteiti.

Cognates include Lithuanian pūti (id.), Gothic fūls, Old High German fūl, German faul (rotten, rancid, lazy), Old Norse feyja (to cause to rot), Sanskrit पूयति (pūyati, rots, smells), Ancient Greek πῡ́θω (pū́thō, I cause to rot), Latin pūteō (I rot, smell rotten), pūtidus, puter (rotten), Persian پوسیدن (to rot).

Past stem puv- derivations: puve, puvekļi, puveši, puvums, papuve, regional puvēns (= puveklis "a chunk of rotten matter").[1]

Pronunciation

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Verb

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pūt (intransitive, 1st conjugation, present pūstu, pūsti, pūst, past puvu)

  1. to rot

Conjugation

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Conjugation of pūt
indicative (īstenības izteiksme) imperative
(pavēles izteiksme)
present
(tagadne)
past
(pagātne)
future
(nākotne)
1st person sg es pūstu puvu pūšu
2nd person sg tu pūsti puvi pūsi pūsti
3rd person sg viņš, viņa pūst puva pūs lai pūst
1st person pl mēs pūstam puvām pūsim pūsim
2nd person pl jūs pūstat puvāt pūsiet,
pūsit
pūstiet
3rd person pl viņi, viņas pūst puva pūs lai pūst
renarrative (atstāstījuma izteiksme) participles (divdabji)
present pūstot present active 1 (adj.) pūstošs
past esot puvis present active 2 (adv.) pūdams
future pūšot present active 3 (adv.) pūstot
imperative lai pūstot present active 4 (obj.) pūstam
conditional (vēlējuma izteiksme) past active puvis
present pūtu present passive pūstams
past būtu puvis past passive pūts
debitive (vajadzības izteiksme) nominal forms
indicative (būt) jāpūst infinitive (nenoteiksme) pūt
conjunctive 1 esot jāpūst negative infinitive nepūt
conjunctive 2 jāpūstot verbal noun pūšana

Derived terms

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Verb

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pūt

  1. inflection of pūst:
    1. second-person singular present indicative
    2. second-person singular imperative

References

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