šausmas

See also: šausmās

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

From an unattested verb *šaust (“make (hair, feathers) stand”) (compare Lithuanian šiaũsti (“to dishevel, to comb upward; to raise (feathers)”)), from Proto-Baltic *šiaus-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱew- (“to swell, to bend”) (hence “protrude, ruffle, make stand”), with an extra -s. The meaning “to make (hair) stand” became in the noun šausmas “great fear, terror”.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ʃāūsmas]

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Noun edit

šausmas f (4th declension)

terror, horror (very intense fear)
šausmu pārņemts ― horror-struck

iedvest šausmas ― to inspire horror, terror

iekliegties no šausmām ― to cry out in horror

šausmu kliedziens ― horror scream

sastingt šausmās ― to freeze in terror, horror
terror, horror (very bad events that (may) cause intense fear)
kara šausmas ― the horror of war

šausmu lietas ― horrible things, affairs

šausmu filma ― horror movie

Declension edit

Declension of šausmas (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	—	šausmas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	—	šausmas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	—	šausmu
dative (datīvs)	—	šausmām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	—	šausmām
locative (lokatīvs)	—	šausmās
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	šausmas

Related terms edit

šausmīgs

References edit

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

[1] Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “šausmas”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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