bikses
See also: biksēs
Latvian
editEtymology
editBorrowed from Middle Low German büxe, bükse, or from Old Frisian büxe, bükse; cf. German dialectal buxe, Swedish byxa, byxor, first mentioned in 17th-century dictionaries. The original meaning was “goat leather pants” (cf. Middle Low German buck “male goat,” “buck”), later extended to all kinds of pants.[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editbikses f (5th declension)
- pants, trousers; shorts (outer garment that covers the lower body from the waist down, with two long or short legs)
- garās bikses ― (long) pants
- īsās bikses ― short pants, shorts
- sporta bikses ― shorts (lit. sports pants)
- slēpošanas bikses ― ski pants
- bikšu dibens ― pant bottom
- bikšu kabatas ― pant pockets
- zīda bikses ― silk pants
- pidžamas bikses ― pajama pants
- valkāt bikses ― to wear pants
- viņam mugurā bija sūnu zaļš krekls un pelēkas bikses ― he was wearing (lit. on his back there were) a moss green shirt and gray pants
Declension
editDeclension of bikses (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | — | bikses |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | — | bikses |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | — | bikšu |
dative (datīvs) | — | biksēm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | — | biksēm |
locative (lokatīvs) | — | biksēs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | bikses |
References
edit- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “bikses”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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