nāve
Latvian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (dialectal)nāvs(6th decl.)
Etymology
[edit]Originally ani-stem (*nāvis;compare dialectalnāvs) changed by analogy into a 5th-declensione-stem; fromProto-Balto-Slavic*nā́ˀwis,fromProto-Indo-European*neh₂wis,from the stem*neh₂w-(“death”).There is also a stem*néh₂us(“boat, ship”)(compareLatinnavis,Ancient Greekναῦς(naûs),Sanskritनाव(nāva),Proto-Scythian*nā́w(“boat, ship”),Tajikнов(nov,“gutter”),Norwegian Bokmålnu(“hod, trough”).It is possible that these two*neh₂w-'s were originally one stem, with the meaning “timber, tree” (compareSanskritवन(vana,“timber, tree, forest”),apparently withmetathesisofvandn), from which the meaning would change in two ways: on the one hand, “timber, tree” > “dug-out tree” > “boat, ship”, and, on the other hand, “timber, tree” > “tree stump, dead tree” > “dead body; death.”
Cognates includeLithuaniannõvis(“death”),nõvė(“slaughtering, killing; unknown disease; yoke; coercion”),Old Prussiannowis(“body, flesh”),Russiandialectalнавей(navej),навь(navʹ),навье(navʹje,“corpse, dead body”),Czecharchaicnav(“tomb, hell, beyond”),Gothic𐌽𐌰𐌿𐍃(naus,“dead body, corpse”),genitive𐌽𐌰𐍅𐌹𐍃(nawis),Bretonnaoun(“hunger”)(<Proto-Celtic*nāunyā).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]nāvef(5th declension)
- death(the end of life, of a lifetime)
- dzīvības unnāvesjautājums―a question of life anddeath
- atra, drīzanāve―earlydeath
- vieglanāve―easydeath
- mokpilnanāve―torturousdeath
- dabiska, pēkšņanāve―natural, suddendeath
- klīniskanāve―clinicaldeath
- badanāve―hungerdeath(= starvation)
- nāvesdiena, brīdis―day, time ofdeath
- sodīt arnāvi―to punish withdeath
- piespriestnāvi―to sentence todeath
- nāvessods,nāvessods —deathpenalty
- izglābties no (drošas)nāves―to escape (certain)death
- mirt varoņanāve―to die a hero'sdeath
- mirt traģiskānāvē―to die a tragicdeath
- līdznāvei―to thedeath,tilldeath
- dzīvības unnāvesdialektiskā vienība―the dialectical unity of life anddeath
- galvenienāvescēloņi ir asinsrites orgānu slimības, ļaundabīgie audzēji un nelaimes gadījumi―the main causes ofdeathare circulatory system diseases, cancers and accidents
Declension
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[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^Karulis, Konstantīns(1992) “nāve”,inLatviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1](in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS,→ISBN
Pali
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[edit]Noun
[edit]nāvef
- Latvian etymologies from LEV
- Latvian terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Latvian terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *neh₂w-
- Latvian terms inherited from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Latvian terms derived from Proto-Balto-Slavic
- Latvian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Latvian terms with IPA pronunciation
- Latvian words with broken intonation
- Latvian lemmas
- Latvian nouns
- Latvian feminine nouns
- Latvian terms with usage examples
- Latvian fifth declension nouns
- Latvian noun forms
- lv:Death
- Pali lemmas
- Pali nouns
- Pali nouns in Latin script
- Pali feminine nouns