plīts
See also: plits
Latvian
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Alternative forms
[edit]- (dialectal form) plīte
Etymology
[edit]A borrowing from Baltic German Pliete, itself a borrowing from Russian плита́ (plitá, “stove”). This word is related to Ancient Greek πλίνθος (plínthos, “brick”).[1]
Pronunciation
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Noun
[edit]plīts f (6th declension)
- stove, cooker (a heating device with burners for cooking food)
- malkas, gāzes, elektriskā plīts ― wood-burning, gas, electric stove
- bāzt plītī malku ― to put wood into the stove
- podiņu plīts ― tiled stove
- karsta plīts ― hot stove
- plīts kurtuve ― stove burner
- iekurināt plīti ― to heat the stove
Declension
[edit]| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | plīts | plītis |
| genitive | plīts | plīšu |
| dative | plītij | plītīm |
| accusative | plīti | plītis |
| instrumental | plīti | plītīm |
| locative | plītī | plītīs |
| vocative | plīts | plītis |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “plīts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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