varde

See also: värde and vardē

Latvian
Varde

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *war-, *wer- with an extra -de, from Proto-Indo-European *werh₁-, a stem used to form words that imitate human and animal voices (compare vārds (“word, name”)). Cognates include Lithuanian varlė̃ (with a different suffix).[1] A different hypothesis derives it from Proto-Indo-European *word-, which also yielded with Old Armenian գորտ (gort).[2]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [vârde]
(file)

Noun

varde f (5th declension)

  1. frog (small, tailless amphibian (order: Anura) which typically hops)
    zaļā varde ― green frog
    ezera varde ― lake frog
    purva varde ― marsh frog
    varžu kurkuļi ― frog tadpoles
    dīķī kurkst vardes ― frogs croak in the pond

Declension
Declension of varde (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) varde vardes
accusative (akuzatīvs) vardi vardes
genitive (ģenitīvs) vardes varžu
dative (datīvs) vardei vardēm
instrumental (instrumentālis) vardi vardēm
locative (lokatīvs) vardē vardēs
vocative (vokatīvs) varde vardes

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “varde”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN.
  2. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 227

Northern Sami

Verb

varde

  1. inflection of vardit:
    1. first-person dual present indicative
    2. third-person plural past indicative

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

varde

  1. cairn
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