skuja

See also: Skuja and skują

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *skwajāˀ, from Proto-Indo-European *skwoy-eh₂, from *skwey-; see also Proto-Slavic *xvoja.

Noun

skuja f (4th declension)

1. needle (botany)

Declension

Declension of skuja (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	skuja	skujas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	skuju	skujas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	skujas	skuju
dative (datīvs)	skujai	skujām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	skuju	skujām
locative (lokatīvs)	skujā	skujās
vocative (vokatīvs)	skuja	skujas

References

• Derksen, Rick (2008) Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 206
• Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “хвоя”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
• Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “хвоя”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volume 2 (панцирь – ящур), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 337
• Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1981), “*xvoja / *xvojь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 8 (*xa – *jьvьlga), Moscow: Nauka, page 125