tukls

Latvian

Etymology

Derived from tukt (“to swell, to become thick, fat”), a dialectal variant of tūkt (“to swell”) (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian tuklùs (“quickly fattened; fat, stout; overweight”).^[1]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

tukls (definite tuklais, comparative tuklāks, superlative vistuklākais, adverb tukli)

(of people, animals, body parts) fat, chubby, plump, corpulent (having a relatively thick layer of fat)
tukls cilvēks ― fat, corpulent person

tukli vaigi, pirksti ― fat cheecks, fingers

tukls sivēns ― fat piglet

pa laukiem skraidīja tuklās lauku peles ― through the fields ran fat field mice

Declension

indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of tukls

	masculine (vīriešu dzimte)		feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	tukls	tukli	tukla	tuklas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	tuklu	tuklus	tuklu	tuklas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	tukla	tuklu	tuklas	tuklu
dative (datīvs)	tuklam	tukliem	tuklai	tuklām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	tuklu	tukliem	tuklu	tuklām
locative (lokatīvs)	tuklā	tuklos	tuklā	tuklās
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	—	—	—

Synonyms

resns

Antonyms

tievs
slaids, slaiks

Derived terms

References

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

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

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