sakne

LatvianEdit

EtymologyEdit

From Proto-Baltic *šaknīs from Proto-Indo-European *ḱak- (“branch, stick”) (whence also sakas (q.v.)). Cognate with Lithuanian šaknis, Old Prussian sagnis (*saknis). Originally a feminine i-stem.^[1]

NounEdit

sakne f (5th declension)

DeclensionEdit

Declension of sakne (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	sakne	saknes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	sakni	saknes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	saknes	sakņu
dative (datīvs)	saknei	saknēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	sakni	saknēm
locative (lokatīvs)	saknē	saknēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	sakne	saknes

ReferencesEdit

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

Norwegian NynorskEdit

VerbEdit

sakne (present tense saknar, past tense sakna, past participle sakna, passive infinitive saknast, present participle saknande, imperative sakne/sakn)

Alternative form of sakna

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

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