pamats

Latvian

From pa- (“under”) +‎ the same stem as the verb mest (“to throw”). Cognates include Lithuanian pãmatas.^[1]

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pamats m (1st declension)

Declension of pamats (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pamats	pamati
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pamatu	pamatus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pamata	pamatu
dative (datīvs)	pamatam	pamatiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pamatu	pamatiem
locative (lokatīvs)	pamatā	pamatos
vocative (vokatīvs)	pamat	pamati

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