virsa

A variant of the (now rarer) term virsus, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wíršus, Proto-Indo-European *wers-, from *wer- (“elevated place”) with an extra suffix -s. Cognates include Lithuanian viršùs, Proto-Slavic *vьrxъ (Old Church Slavonic врьхъ (vrĭxŭ), Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian верх (verx), Bulgarian връх (vrǎh), Czech vrch, Polish wierzch), Old English wearr (“hardened blister, wart”), dialectal German Werre (“eye inflammation, stye”), Old Irish ferr (“better”), Sanskrit वर्ष्मन् (varṣmán, “height, highest part, peak, top, end”), Latin verrūca (“wart”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [vìrsa]

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virsa f (4th declension)

1. top (the upper part, of an object, body, etc.)

   galda virsa ― table top

   siena krāvuma virsa ― top of a hay stack

   cepure ar platu virsu ― hat with a wide top

2. surface

   ūdens virsas temperatūra ― water surface temperature

   apavu virsa ― surface of a shoe

   pulksteņa virsa atmirdzēja kā zelts ― the surface of the clock was shining like gold

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