liepa

See also: liepā and Liepa

Latvian

Liepa on Latvian Wikipedia

Liepa

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *léiˀpāˀ,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to glue, to paste”), whence also lipt (“to stick, to adhere”).

Reflexes of the non-diphthongized stem can be seen in place names like Līpes kalns or Lipaiķi. The name probably came from the soft, pleasant leaves of this tree (or perhaps because of its sticky sap). A different name for the linden tree, from Proto-Indo-European *lento-, can be seen in English lind, linden, German Linde, and is reflected in Latvian lieta (“thing”) (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian líepa, Old Prussian lipe ([liːpe]), *leipe (from place names like Leypein, Leypiten), Proto-Slavic *lipa (Ukrainian, Russian ли́па (lípa), Belarusian лі́па (lípa), Bulgarian липа́ (lipá), Czech lípa, Polish lipa). (There were apparently also Germanic cognates — later replaced by reflexes of *lento- — as in the city name Leipciga, today's Leipzig.)^[2]

liepa f (4th declension)

Declension of liepa (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	liepa	liepas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	liepu	liepas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	liepas	liepu
dative (datīvs)	liepai	liepām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	liepu	liepām
locative (lokatīvs)	liepā	liepās
vocative (vokatīvs)	liepa	liepas

^ Kim, Ronald (2018) “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Handbook of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook‎^[1], Berlin: de Gruyter, →ISBN
^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “liepa”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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líepa f (plural líepos) stress pattern 1

Declension of líepa