papuve
See also: papuvē
Latvian
editEtymology
editFrom pa- (“a little”) + puve (“rotting”), with puve from the past stem puv- of the verb pūt (“to rot”).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editpapuve f (5th declension)
- fallow, fallow land (land left unseeded for a year)
- atstāt zemi papuvē ― to leave land fallow
- papuvju aršana ― ploughing of the fallow lands
- papuves kultūras ― fallow crops
- tīrā papuve ― fallow where no crops grow (lit. clean fallow)
- melnā papuve ― fallow which is kept with fertilizer and where weeds are systematically destroyed (lit. black fallow)
Declension
editDeclension of papuve (5th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | papuve | papuves |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | papuvi | papuves |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | papuves | papuvju |
dative (datīvs) | papuvei | papuvēm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | papuvi | papuvēm |
locative (lokatīvs) | papuvē | papuvēs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | papuve | papuves |
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pūt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN