selga
See also: selgā
Estonian
Noun
selga
Latvian
Etymology
Borrowed from Livonian sälga (“back; open sea”); compare cognates in other Baltic-Finnic languages (Finnish selkä (“back, open water”), Estonian selg (“back”), dialectal sälg).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [sǣlɡa]
Noun
selga f (4th declension)
- a deep place, far from the coast (of a sea, big lake, river, etc.); the deep sea; the open sea
- izbraukt selgā ― to go to the deep, open sea; to leave the coast
- kuģis izbraucis selgā ― the ship left the coast (into the open sea)
- vējš pūš no selgas ― the wind is blowing from seaways, from the open sea
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | selga | selgas |
| genitive | selgas | selgu |
| dative | selgai | selgām |
| accusative | selgu | selgas |
| instrumental | selgu | selgām |
| locative | selgā | selgās |
| vocative | selga | selgas |
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns. 1992, 2001. This word is first mentioned in 18th-century dictionaries.Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: AVOTS. →ISBN.