pūte

See also: pute, Pute, putè, putė, and putë

Latvian

Etymology

Although Karulis does not list this word, it is very likely cognate with pūst (“to blow, inflate”) or pūt (“to rot”) from Proto-Indo-European *pū- (“to rot, swell, become bloated”).

-pūte would be the standard way of nominalizing the verb pūst (from its past stem pūtu) for neologism coining purposes, cf., gaispūte – standard term for an industrial blower. The past stem of pūt is puvu hence puve referring to various types of plant diseases.

Noun

pūte f (5 declension)

pimple

Usage notes

Usually the diminutive of this word (pūtīte) is used. In more colloquial contexts pumpa is universally favored. In more formal contexts synonymous pinne is likely to be encountered more often than pūtīte.

Declension

Declension of pūte (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pūte	pūtes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pūti	pūtes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pūtes	pūšu
dative (datīvs)	pūtei	pūtēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pūti	pūtēm
locative (lokatīvs)	pūtē	pūtēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	pūte	pūtes