ūdrs
See also: UDRS
Latvian
Alternative forms
- (dialectal forms) ūdris
Etymology
From the same stem as ūdens: Proto-Indo-European *wódr̥, *wédōr (“water”), with a suffix *-ro, resulting in Proto-Indo-European *udrós (“water animal”), from which Proto-Baltic *ud-ra-s (or possibly Proto-Balto-Slavic *ū́ˀdrāˀ[1]). The original meaning, “aquatic animal,” is attested in Sanskrit.
- Cognates include Lithuanian ū́dra, ū́dras (compare Latvian dialectal ūdris), Old Prussian udro, Proto-Slavic *vydra (Russian, Belarusian вы́дра (výdra), Bulgarian ви́дра (vídra), Czech vydra, Polish wydra, Upper Sorbian wudra), Proto-Germanic *otra < *utra (Old High German ottar, Old Norse otr, Old English otor, German Otter, Swedish utter, English otter), Sanskrit उद्र (udrá, “aquatic animal”), Ancient Greek ὕδρος (húdros), ὕδρα (húdra, “water serpent”), Latin lutra < *utrā- < *udrā- (French loutre, Romanian lutră, Italian, Portuguese lontra, Spanish lutria, nutria).[2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈûːdɾs]
Noun
ūdrs m (1st declension)
- otter (any aquatic or marine mustelid)
- parastais ūdrs ― common otter
- ūdri ir sastopami gandrīz visos kontinentos ― otters can be found in almost all continents
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | ūdrs | ūdri |
| genitive | ūdra | ūdru |
| dative | ūdram | ūdriem |
| accusative | ūdru | ūdrus |
| instrumental | ūdru | ūdriem |
| locative | ūdrā | ūdros |
| vocative | ūdr | ūdri |
References
- ^ Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook[1], Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ūdrs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary][2] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN