pekle

See also: peklē and пекле

Czech edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [ˈpɛklɛ]

Noun edit

pekle

locative singular of peklo

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Russian пе́кло (péklo, “hell”), dialectal пекл (pekl) (from Old Church Slavonic пькълъ (pĭkŭlŭ, “tar”), from Latin picula (“tar”)). Its ending may also have been influenced by elle. It is first mentioned in 18th-century dictionaries. In some dialects, it also means “abyss.”^[1]

Noun edit

pekle f (5th declension)

(theology) hell
tumšs kā peklē ― dark as in hell

Declension edit

Declension of pekle (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	pekle	pekles
accusative (akuzatīvs)	pekli	pekles
genitive (ģenitīvs)	pekles	pekļu
dative (datīvs)	peklei	peklēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	pekli	peklēm
locative (lokatīvs)	peklē	peklēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	pekle	pekles

Synonyms edit

elle

References edit

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

Serbo-Croatian edit

Participle edit

pekle (Cyrillic spelling пекле)

feminine plural active past participle of peći

[1] Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pekle”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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