strazds
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Latvian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (dialectal form) strads
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Balto-Slavic *trazdas with an additional initial s-, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”). In some Latvian dialects, the z was eliminated by dissimilation, yielding strads.
Cognates include Lithuanian strãzdas, dialectal strazdà, strazà, strãzas, Old Prussian tresde, Proto-Slavic *trozdъ, from *drozdъ (Russian, Bulgarian дрозд (drozd), Ukrainian дрізд (drizd), Czech drozd, dialectal drozda, zdrozda, drozen, Polish drozd), Proto-Germanic *þrau(d)-st-, *þrōst-, *þrast-ur (Old High German drōsca-, German Drossel, English throstle, Old Norse þrǭstr-, Norwegian trost, Swedish trast), Breton trask, draskl, tred, dred, Latin turdus (< *tr̥zdos) (Spanish tordo, Portuguese tordo, Italian tordo).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]strazds m (1st declension)
- starling, thrush, throstle (gregarious birds of the families Sturnidae and Turdidae; various species)
- strazdu dzimta ― the starling family (Sturnidae)
- strazdu būris ― a bird house (for starlings)
- mājas strazds ― common (lit. house) starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
- sila strazds ― mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
- dziedātājstrazds ― song thrush (Turdus philomelos)
Declension
[edit]Declension of strazds (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | strazds | strazdi |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | strazdu | strazdus |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | strazda | strazdu |
dative (datīvs) | strazdam | strazdiem |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | strazdu | strazdiem |
locative (lokatīvs) | strazdā | strazdos |
vocative (vokatīvs) | strazd | strazdi |
Derived terms
[edit]- dziedātājstrazds
- mājas strazds
- melnais mežastrazds, melnais meža strazds, melnais strazds
- pelēkais strazds
- sila strazds
- strazdiene
References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “strazds”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Categories:
- Latvian etymologies from LEV
- Latvian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Latvian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Latvian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latvian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian nouns
- Latvian masculine nouns
- Latvian terms with usage examples
- Latvian first declension nouns
- lv:Starlings
- lv:Thrushes