suns

See also: šuns and suņs

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /sʌnz/
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  • Rhymes: -ʌnz
  • Homophone: sons

Noun

suns

  1. plural of sun

Verb

suns

  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of sun

Anagrams

Gothic

Romanization

suns

  1. romanization of 𐍃𐌿𐌽𐍃

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *kwṓ. An older Latvian form *so is now found only in one dialect (Nīgrande) as a word to call dogs. Cognates include Lithuanian šuõ (genitive šuñs, dialectal šunis), Old Prussian sunis, Proto-Germanic *hundaz (Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌽𐌳𐍃 (hunds), Old Norse hundr, Icelandic hundur, Swedish hund, Old High German hunt, Old English hund, German Hund, Dutch hond, English hound), Irish , Welsh ci, plural cŵn, Sanskrit श्वन् (śván), genitive शुनस् (śunas), Avestan 𐬯𐬞𐬁 (spā), genitive plural 𐬯𐬎𐬥𐬀𐬨 (sunam), Old Armenian շուն (šun), Ancient Greek κύων (kúōn), Latin canis (Italian cane, Portuguese cão, French chien, Spanish can).[1]

Pronunciation

Noun

suns m (2nd declension, irregular nominative)

  1. domestic dog (Canis lupus familiaris)
    mājas sunsdomestic dog
    medību sunshunting dog
    aitu, ganu sunsshepherd dog
    nikns sunswild, angry dog
    suns rej uz gājējuthe dog barks at the passer-by
    suņa dzīve, darbsa dog's life, work

Declension

Declension of suns (2nd declension)
singular plural
nominative suns suņi
genitive suņa suņu
dative sunim suņiem
accusative suni suņus
instrumental suni suņiem
locative sunī suņos
vocative suni suņi

See also

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “suns”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN