vāks
See also: vaks
Latvian edit
Etymology edit
From the same stem as the verb vākt (“to collect, to gather”): Proto-Baltic *vāk-, from Proto-Indo-European *wāk-, *wēk- (“to bend, to turn, to weave”), from a stem *wā- (“to move (away), to move so as to bend, turn”). The original meaning of the noun was thus “(something) woven”, from which “(woven) basket”, then “(basket) lid”, and finally “lid, cover”. Cognates include Lithuanian vókas (“eyelid; envelope; large woven basket”), Old Church Slavonic вѣко (věko), Russian ве́ко (véko, “eyelid”), dialectal also “eyelashes, basket lid, basket with lid”, Belarusian ве́ка (vjéka, “cover, lid”), Ukrainian ві́ко (víko, “eyelid, lid, cover”), Czech víko, Polish wieko.[1]
Pronunciation edit
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Noun edit
vāks m (1st declension)
- lid, movable cover (to protect something)
- lādes, šķirsta, čemodāna vāks ― box, chest, suitcade lid
- atvāžams vāks ― movable lid
- muca ar vāku ― barrel with a lid
- motora vāks ― motor cover (= hood, bonnet)
- bagāžnieka vāks ― trunk lid
- pulksteņa vāks ― clock lid
- debesu, debess vāks ― the celestial vault (= sky)
- uzlikt kannai vāku ― to put a lid on the can, pot
- noņemt, atvērt vāku ― to remove, to open the lid
- katlam noņem vāku ― remove the lid from the pot
- būtu nepieciešams akai iztaisīt jaunu vāku ― it would be necessary to make a new lid for the well
- book cover
- burtnīcu zilie vāki ― the notebook's blue covers
- attēls uz ābeces vāka ― a picture from the ABC book cover
- izlasīt no vāka līdz vākam ― to read (a book) from cover to cover
- (only plural) folder, file (for documents, papers, etc.)
- aktu, dokumentu vāki ― paper, document folder
- iesiet, ielikt dokumentus vākos ― to put documents in(to) folders
Declension edit
Declension of vāks (1st declension)
Synonyms edit
- (of "folder, file"): mape
Derived terms edit
References edit
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “vāks”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN