saule

saule (plural saules)

1. Obsolete form of soul.
2. (Scotland, obsolete) A hired mourner at a funeral.

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• EULAs, Laues, esaul

From Middle French saule, from Old French saule (“willow”), from Gaulish salico (“willow”), from Proto-Celtic *salik, from Proto-Indo-European *salǝḱ-, *salǝk- (“willow”). Cognate with Old High German salaha (“willow”), Old English sealh (“willow”), Latin salix (“willow, willow branch”), Middle Irish sail (“willow”). More at sallow.

Old French saule displaced Old French sauz (“willow”), from Latin salix.

• IPA^(key): /sol/

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• Rhymes: -ol
• Homophone: saules

saule m (plural saules)

1. willow, willow tree

• saule pleureur

• “saule” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

• salue, salué

saule

1. sun

• Saule

From Proto-Baltic *saul-, *saulē-, from Proto-Indo-European *sóh₂wl̥, *sāwel-, *swel- (“sun”) (from Proto-Indo-European *sāu- (“to shine, to sparkle”), with a suffix -l). Cognates include Lithuanian sáulė, Old Prussian saule, Gothic 𐍃𐌰𐌿𐌹𐌻 (sauil), Ancient Greek ἥλιος (hḗlios) (< *sāwel-iyos), Old Norse sól (Icelandic sól, Swedish sol), Latin sōl (< *swōl; Spanish sol, Portuguese sol, Italian sole, French soleil, originally a diminutive). With suffix -n instead of -l, cognates include Gothic 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐌽𐍉 (sunnō), Old High German, Old Norse sunna (German Sonne, English sun). Hibrid forms with both -l and -n include Proto-Slavic *sъlnь, whence Proto-Slavic *sъlnьce, a diminutive (compare Russian солнце (sólnce)).[1]

• IPA^(key): [sāūle]

saule f (5th declension)

1. sun (the star at the center of the Solar System, from which light and heat reach the Earth)

   saule spīd ― the sun is shining

   rīta, vakara, vasaras saule ― morning, evening, summer sun

   saule lec, riet ― the sun rises, sets

   saules lēkts, riets ― sunrise, sunset

   celties līdz ar sauli ― to rise with the sun (= early)

   saules stari, gaisma, siltums ― sun beams, light, heat

   saules sistēma ― Solar System

   saules aptumsums ― solar eclipse

   saules vējš ― solar wind

   saules plankumi ― sun spots

   saules enerģija ― solar energy

2. sun, sunlight (the light and heat that comes from the sun; area reached by this light and heat)

   sildīties saulē ― to bask in the sun

   istabā nav saules ― in the room there is no sun

   kaktusiem vajadzīgs daudz saules ― cactuses need much sun

   acis žilbst saulē ― eyes are dazzled in the sun

   atlaisties saulē ― to sit in the sun

3. (poetic) world

   šajā saulē dzivot ― to live in this world

   aiziet viņā saulē ― to go away from this world, to die

When used to refer to the central star of the Solar System, especially if seen as a location, saule is often capitalized: Saule.

• aizsaule
• pasaule
• saulains
• saulesbrilles, saules brilles
• saules sistēma
• saules vējš
• sauļup

• sauļot, sauļoties

• saule at tezaurs.lv

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɑulɛ/

saule

1. instrumental singular of saulė
2. vocative singular of saulė