kajaks

See also: Kajaks

Latvian
Kajaks

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from Estonian kajakas (“seagull”), dialectal kajak, but, given Latvian kaija (“seagull”), and since ak is a formative element often found in Indo-European animal names, Latvian kajaks may have been the original word and Estonian kajakas the borrowing.[1]

Pronunciation
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Noun

kajaks m (1st declension)

  1. common gull, also known as mew gull (Larus canus).
    kajaku brēcieni ― common gull cries, squawks
    mazāk pie mums Latvijā ligzdo kajaks, un tam līdzīgā, krietni prāvākā sudrabkaija ― less (often) the common gull nests by us in Latvia, and also the similar, (but) much larger, silver gull

Declension
Declension of kajaks (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) kajaks kajaki
accusative (akuzatīvs) kajaku kajakus
genitive (ģenitīvs) kajaka kajaku
dative (datīvs) kajakam kajakiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) kajaku kajakiem
locative (lokatīvs) kajakā kajakos
vocative (vokatīvs) kajaks kajaki

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “kaija”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Swedish

Noun

kajaks

  1. indefinite genitive singular of kajak
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