auns

See also: Auns

Latvian

Auni

From Proto-Baltic *awinas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃éwis (“sheep, ram”). Cognates include Lithuanian ãvinas, Old Prussian awins, Old Church Slavonic овьнъ (ovĭnŭ), Russian ове́н (ovén). These terms are formed from *h₃éwi-, originally a term for sheep in general (possibly derived from *ew-, *Hew- (“to dress”), i.e. “(animal) dressed (in wool)”), with a suffix *-in to distinguish male sheep. Other terms derived from *h₃éwi- include Old Church Slavonic овьца (ovĭca), Russian, Bulgarian овца (ovca), Belarusian аўца́ (aŭcá), аве́чка (avjéčka), Ukrainian вівца́ (vivcá), Czech ovce, Slovak ovca, Polish owca (“ewe”), Gothic 𐌰𐍅𐌴𐌸𐌹 (awēþi, “herd of sheep”), Old High German ouwi, ou (“ewe”) (< *awī), Hittite ẖawi-, Sanskrit अविः (áviḥ), Ancient Greek οἶς (oîs), Latin ovis.^[1]

auns m (1st declension)

male sheep, ram, tup
ragains auns ― horned ram

atšķirt, nošķirt aunus no avīm ― to distinguish the rams from the ewes (i.e., the good from the bad, the innocent from the guilty)

Declension of auns (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	auns	auni
accusative (akuzatīvs)	aunu	aunus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	auna	aunu
dative (datīvs)	aunam	auniem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	aunu	auniem
locative (lokatīvs)	aunā	aunos
vocative (vokatīvs)	aun	auni

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