tukls
Latvian
editEtymology
editDerived from tukt (“to swell, to become thick, fat”), a dialectal variant of tūkt (“to swell”) (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian tuklùs (“quickly fattened; fat, stout; overweight”).[1]
Pronunciation
editAdjective
edittukls (definite tuklais, comparative tuklāks, superlative vistuklākais, adverb tukli)
- (of people, animals, body parts) fat, chubby, plump, corpulent (having a relatively thick layer of fat)
- tukls cilvēks ― fat, corpulent person
- tukli vaigi, pirksti ― fat cheecks, fingers
- tukls sivēns ― fat piglet
- pa laukiem skraidīja tuklās lauku peles ― through the fields ran fat field mice
Declension
editindefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of tukls
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
nominative (nominatīvs) | tukls | tukli | tukla | tuklas | |||||
accusative (akuzatīvs) | tuklu | tuklus | tuklu | tuklas | |||||
genitive (ģenitīvs) | tukla | tuklu | tuklas | tuklu | |||||
dative (datīvs) | tuklam | tukliem | tuklai | tuklām | |||||
instrumental (instrumentālis) | tuklu | tukliem | tuklu | tuklām | |||||
locative (lokatīvs) | tuklā | tuklos | tuklā | tuklās | |||||
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
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editReferences
edit- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “tukls”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN