rīts
Latvian edit
Etymology edit
From the same stem as the verb ritēt (“to roll; to flow; to go by”): Proto-Baltic *rīt-, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃reyH- (“to flow”) with an extra -t (from the same stem, with an extra -s instead, Old English risan, English rise; from the meaning “to flow,” Latin rīvus “river”). The meaning probably went from “to flow, to pass” to “morning” via the idea of the time when the day starts to flow, to pass (or maybe the idea of the sun beginning to pass, to go by, to “flow”, on the sky). Cognates include Lithuanian rýtas.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
rīts m (1st declension)
- morning (time of day, roughly around sunrise; also, the time period from sunrise to noon)
- rīta debesis ― morning sky
- tumšs rīts ― dark morning
- agrs rīts ― early morning
- rīta krēsla ― morning twilight
- rīta rasa ― morning dew
- rīta cēliens ― morning period, time
- rīta zvaigzne ― morning star (= Venus)
- no rīta līdz vakaram ― from morning till night
- uz rīta pusi ― (going) toward morning
- rīta putns ― morning bird (= a person who wakes up early)
- rīta tualete ― morning washing (i.e., the act washing and brushing one's teeth in the morning)
- silts, mīlīgs rīts ausa augusta sākumā... saule vēl nebija lēkusi, jo gaismiņa tikko sāka svīst ― a warm, gentle morning dawned in early August... the sun had not yet risen, because the (early) light had just begun to appear
- tonakt man slikti nāca miegs... aizmigu tikai pret rīta pusi ― that night I had trouble sleeping... I fell asleep only (when it was going) towards morning
- (in the genitive, used adjectivally) morning
- rīta kurpes, rītakurpes ― slippers (lit. morning shoes)
- rīta svārki, rītasvārki ― gown, bathrobe (lit. morning coat)
- Edīte izraušas no gultas un apvilka rīta svārkus ― Edīte scrambled out of bed and put on her dressing gown
- (figuratively) morning, dawn (the beginning or early phase of something)
- dzīves rīts ― the morning (= first phase) of life
- jaunība ir dzīves rīts; tas ir laiks, kad cilvēks veidojas kā personība ― youth is the morning of life; that is the time when someone forms him/herself as a person
Usage notes edit
Rīt is an adverb, meaning “tomorrow,” whereas rītdiena is a noun, meaning “(the day of) tomorrow.” Rīts, on the other hand, is a noun, meaning “morning.” The corresponding locative rītā can mean both “in the morning” (more frequently: no rīta) and “tomorrow” (more frequently: rīt).
Declension edit
Derived terms edit
See also edit
- Times of day (diennakts daļas):
ausma/rītausma - rīts - priekšpusdiena - pusdiena - pēcpusdiena - vakars - krēsla - nakts - pusnakts
References edit
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “rīts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN