uts
English
Noun
uts
- plural of ut
Anagrams
Basque
Noun
uts ?
See also
Catalan
Noun
uts
- plural of ut
Kalasha
Etymology
From Sanskrit उत्स (utsa). Cognate with Bengali উৎস (utś), Khowar اُڅ (uts).
Noun
uts
- spring (water source)
Latvian
Etymology
Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *wēt-, *wet-, *ut-, from the stem *wē- (“to blow”) (whence also Latin vējš (“wind”), q.v.) with a suffix -t.
J. Endzelīns, connecting this word to Old Prussian wutris (“blacksmith”), and noting the ancient link between the notions of “forging” and “pricking, piercing” (compare Latvian kalt (“to forge”), Russian коло́ть (kolótʹ, “to pierce”)), suggested that the original meaning of uts was “that which pierces; stitch.”
Another opinion is that uts (via *wet-, with a suffix -t) derives from Proto-Indo-European *eu- (“to feel”) (whence also Latvian just (“to feel”), q.v.), so that its original meaning would have been “that which is felt, which irritates”.
A third suggestion is that uts comes from Proto-Indo-European *lus-, *luH- (“louse”) (compare Lithuanian liũlė, German Laus, English louse), a word which many daughter languages altered or abandoned, perhaps because of linguistic taboos; in the Baltic case, only the middle u would have been kept, with an extra suffix -t. Cognates include Lithuanian utėlė̃, dialectal utė̃, uti̇̀s.[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
uts f (6th declension)
- louse, lice (many species of small insect parasites, all in the order Psocodea)
- galvas, drēbju uts ― head, clothes lice
- kaunuma uts ― pubic lice
- utu ķemme ― lice comb (for removing lice)
Declension
singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | uts | utis |
genitive | uts | utu |
dative | utij | utīm |
accusative | uti | utis |
instrumental | uti | utīm |
locative | utī | utīs |
vocative | uts | utis |
Derived terms
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “uts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary][1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
Phalura
Etymology
From Sanskrit उत्स (utsa, “spring of water (masc)”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /uts/
Noun
uts m (Perso-Arabic spelling اُڅ)
- spring (of water)
Inflection
a-decl (Obl, pl): -a
References
- Henrik Liljegren, Naseem Haider (2011) “uts”, in Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)[2], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
- Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “uts”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press