pīle

See also: Appendix:Variations of "pile"

Latvian

Pīle

Etymology

Of onomatopoeic (imitative) origin, as is the case with several other Indo-European bird names, all from Proto-Indo-European onomatopoeic *pī- (reduplicated form *pīp-): Samogitian pīlė (“duck”), Bulgarian пи́ле (píle, “chick, young bird”), Serbo-Croatian pȉle (“chick”), Slovene pípa (“chicken”), Ancient Greek πῑ́πος (pī́pos, “young bird”). The Latvian term, originally probably a dialectal colloquialism, has apparently replaced an earlier Proto-Baltic *antis; compare Lithuanian ántis (“duck”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pīːlɛ]

Noun

pīle f (5th declension)

1. duck (birds of family Anatidae)

   mājas pīle ― domestic (lit. house) duck

   meža pīle ― wild (lit. forest) duck

   pīļu mātīte ― female duck

   pīļu olas ― duck eggs

   pīļu ligzdošanas vietas ― duck nesting areas

   pīļu audzētava ― duck farm

   pīles cepetis ― roast duck

2. (colloquial) false sensationalist rumors

   avīžu pīle ― newspaper sensationalist rumors

   palaist pīli ― to run a sensationalist rumor

Declension

Declension of pīle (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pīle	pīles
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pīli	pīles
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pīles	pīļu
dative (datīvs)	pīlei	pīlēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pīli	pīlēm
locative (lokatīvs)	pīlē	pīlēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	pīle	pīles

Derived terms

• pīlēns

Tocharian B

Noun

pīle m

1. wound, injury