ķīsis

See also: kisis

Latvian edit

ķīsis on Latvian Wikipedia

Ķīsis

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Livonian kiš (“ruffe”); compare cognates in other Baltic-Finnic languages (Finnish kiiski, Estonian kiisk, kiis (“ruffe”)). This word is already attested in 15th-16th century family names, in 17th-century dictionaries as ķīsa, ķīsis, and from the 18th century on only in its modern form ķīsis.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [cīːsis]

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Noun edit

ķīsis m (2nd declension)

ruffe (small freshwater fish, especially Gymnocephalus cernua)
ķīsis barojas ar odu kāpuriem un zivju ikriem ― the ruffe feeds on mosquito larvae and fish eggs

Declension edit

Declension of ķīsis (2nd declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	ķīsis	ķīši
accusative (akuzatīvs)	ķīsi	ķīšus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	ķīša	ķīšu
dative (datīvs)	ķīsim	ķīšiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	ķīsi	ķīšiem
locative (lokatīvs)	ķīsī	ķīšos
vocative (vokatīvs)	ķīsi	ķīši

References edit

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

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

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