telts

Danish

Noun

telts

  1. genitive singular indefinite of telt

Latvian

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German telt (“tent”). Compare German Zelt. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *del- (“split, cut”), whence Proto-Germanic *teldą. From the same Proto-Indo-European source Latvian dalīt (“divide”), deldēt (“wear out”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [tēlts]

Noun

telts f (6 declension)

  1. tent

Declension
Declension of telts (6th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) telts teltis
accusative (akuzatīvs) telti teltis
genitive (ģenitīvs) telts telšu
dative (datīvs) teltij teltīm
instrumental (instrumentālis) telti teltīm
locative (lokatīvs) teltī teltīs
vocative (vokatīvs) telts teltis

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