See also: papuvē

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

From pa- (a little) +‎ puve (rotting), with puve from the past stem puv- of the verb pūt (to rot).[1]

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Noun edit

papuve f (5th declension)

  1. fallow, fallow land (land left unseeded for a year)
    atstāt zemi papuvēto leave land fallow
    papuvju aršanaploughing of the fallow lands
    papuves kultūrasfallow crops
    tīrā papuvefallow where no crops grow (lit. clean fallow)
    melnā papuvefallow which is kept with fertilizer and where weeds are systematically destroyed (lit. black fallow)

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References edit

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pūt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN