ruds
English
Latvian
Alternative forms
- (dialectal form) rauds
Etymology
From Proto-Baltic *raud, *rud, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”). Cognates include Lithuanian rùdas (“brown, reddish brown”), Proto-Slavic *rudъ (Russian рудый (rúdyj, “bright red”), Ukrainian рудий (rudyj, “red, red-haired”), Czech rudý, Polish rudy), German rot, English red, Latin ruber (“red”).[1]
Adjective
ruds (rudais comparative, rudāks superlative, visrudākais adverb, rudi)
Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of ruds
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
nominative (nominatīvs) | ruds | rudi | ruda | rudas | |||||
accusative (akuzatīvs) | rudu | rudus | rudu | rudas | |||||
genitive (ģenitīvs) | ruda | rudu | rudas | rudu | |||||
dative (datīvs) | rudam | rudiem | rudai | rudām | |||||
instrumental (instrumentālis) | rudu | rudiem | rudu | rudām | |||||
locative (lokatīvs) | rudā | rudos | rudā | rudās | |||||
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Derived terms
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “ruds”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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