slaukt
Latvian
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Etymology
[edit]From the same stem as šļūkt (“to slide; to drag one's feet”), in a different ablaut grade: Proto-Baltic *slyauk-, *slauk-, from Proto-Indo-European *slewk-, *slowk- (“to slide”). (Some researchers derived it from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlew- ~ *ḱlōw- ~ *ḱlū- "to clean, to rinse.") The original meaning was “to slide, to drag, to wipe,” initially used to refer to the motion of the hands while milking. Cognates include Lithuanian sliaũkti (“to crawl; to slide; to cast off, to make slide; to wipe; to flow slowly”) [1]
Pronunciation
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Verb
[edit]slaukt (transitive, 1st conjugation, present slaucu, slauc, slauc, past slaucu)
- to milk (to press milk out of a cow's udders)
- slaukt govis, kazas ― to milk cows, goats
- slaukt govis trīs reizes dienā ― to milk the cows three times a day
- slaukt ar rokām ― to milk with (one's) hands
- slaukt ar elektrisko slaukšanas aparātu ― to milk with an electric milking machine
- māte kūtī ar novēlošanos slauca govis, lai tad, kad no meža atnāks Kārlis, piens vēl būtu silts ― mother late in the barn was milking the cows, so that, when Kārlis comes back from the forest, the milk would still be warm
- “jāiet slaukt, varbūt naksi līdzi?...”, māte aicina, vilkdama kūts halātu un lūkodama piena traukus ― “it's time to milk, maybe you'll come along?...” mother invited, putting on her barn clothes and looking at the milk containers
- ārā vēl bija gaišs, kad Kažmuru Lonija iegāja kūti slaukt vakara pienu ― there was still light when Lonija Kažmuri went into the barn to milk the night milk
Conjugation
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Derived terms
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Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “slaukt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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