kuģis

Borrowed from Middle Low German kogge (“wide, roundish ship”), or from Old Frisian kogge, Middle Dutch kogge, or pehaps from Old Norse kuggi (“sea vessel”) or Swedish kogg (“merchant ship”). The word was first used in Germanic languages to refer to a kind of sail, wide with stumpy, roundish ends; it spread all over the Baltic sea in the 14th-15th centuries with the Hanseatic league, when it was borrowed into Latvian. At first used only as sailors' slang, it spread under Swedish influence in the 17th and 18th century (though one 18th-century author mentions that kuģis was used mostly in Riga, liela laiva “big boat” being used elsewhere); by the mid-19th century, it had became a general term for all kinds of ships in the standard language.[1]

• IPA^(key): [kuɟis]

kuģis m (2nd declension)

1. ship (fairly large vehicle on water)

   pasažieru kuģis ― passenger ship

   tirdzniecības, zvejas kuģis ― commercial, fishing ship

   glābšanas kuģis ― rescue ship

   okeāna, jūras, upes kuģis ― ocean, sea, river ship

   mīnu kuģis ― minelayer (lit. mine ship)

   kuģa korpuss, priekšgals, pakaļgals ― ship hull, bow, stern

   kuģa klājs ― ship deck

   kuģa kapteinis, apkalpe ― ship's captain, crew

   kuģa žurnāls ― ship's log book

   uzkāpt uz kuģa ― climb on board of, embark on the ship

   nokāpt no kuģa ― to disembark form the ship

   kuģu būvētava ― shipyard

   kara kuģis ― war ship

   lidmašīnu bāzes kuģis ― aircraft carrier

2. flying vessel (syn. lidaparāts)

   gaisa kuģis, gaisakuģis ― aircraft

   kosmikais, kosmosa kuģis ― spaceship

• laiva

• gaisakuģis
• kuģinieks, kuģiniece