kartupelis

Latvian

Kartupeļi

Etymology

A borrowing, from Baltic German Low German Kartoffel, Kartuffel (compare High German Kartoffel, Danish kartoffel), from a Romance language: compare Romansch tartuffel, Italian tartufalo, from tartufo (“truffle”). The Latvian form is first attested at the beginning of the 18th century. A number of other (often unrelated) terms for “potato” exist in Latvian dialects alongside the standard word.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kārtupelis]

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Noun

kartupelis m (2nd declension)

1. potato (plant, Solanum tuberosum, with tubers eaten as a starchy vegetable)

   kartupeļu (lakstu) puve ― potato (stem) rot (= a potato disease)

   kartupeļu šķirnes ― potato varieties

2. potato (the tubers of the potato plant)

   rakt kartupeļus ― to dig for potatoes

   kartupeļu maiss ― potato sack

   mizot, vārīt, cept kartupeļus ― to peel, to boil, to bake potatoes

   kartupeļu biezenis, biezputra ― mashed potatoes (lit. potato puree)

Declension

Declension of kartupelis (2nd declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	kartupelis	kartupeļi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	kartupeli	kartupeļus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	kartupeļa	kartupeļu
dative (datīvs)	kartupelim	kartupeļiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	kartupeli	kartupeļiem
locative (lokatīvs)	kartupelī	kartupeļos
vocative (vokatīvs)	kartupeli	kartupeļi