ruds
English
Verb
ruds
- third-person singular simple present indicative of rud
Anagrams
Latvian
Alternative forms
- (dialectal form) rauds
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *raudas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁rewdʰ- (“red”).
Cognates include Lithuanian rùdas (“brown, reddish brown”), Proto-Slavic *rudъ (Russian рудый (rudyj, “bright red”), Ukrainian ру́дий (rúdyj, “red, red-haired”), Czech rudý, Polish rudy), German rot, English red, Latin ruber (“red”).[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
ruds (definite rudais, comparative rudāks, superlative visrudākais, adverb rudi)
- (of, e.g., hair) red, red-haired; reddish yellow, brownish yellow with a tone of red
- ruds runcis ― red tomcat
- ruda lapsa ― red fox
- rudas acis ― red eyes
- ruda bārda ― red beard
- rudi mati ― red hair
- ruda ķēve ― red, chestnut mare
- priežu rudie stumbri ― red pine trunks
Declension
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| nominative | ruds | rudi | ruda | rudas | |
| genitive | ruda | rudu | rudas | rudu | |
| dative | rudam | rudiem | rudai | rudām | |
| accusative | rudu | rudus | rudu | rudas | |
| instrumental | rudu | rudiem | rudu | rudām | |
| locative | rudā | rudos | rudā | rudās | |
| vocative | — | — | — | — | |
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | singular | plural | ||
| nominative | rudais | rudie | rudā | rudās | |
| genitive | rudā | rudo | rudās | rudo | |
| dative | rudajam | rudajiem | rudajai | rudajām | |
| accusative | rudo | rudos | rudo | rudās | |
| instrumental | rudo | rudajiem | rudo | rudajām | |
| locative | rudajā | rudajos | rudajā | rudajās | |
| vocative | rudo, rudais | rudie | rudo, rudā | rudās | |
Derived terms
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ruds”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary][1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN