selga

See also: selgā

Estonian edit

Noun edit

selga

partitive singular of selg
illative singular of selg

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Livonian sälga (“back; open sea”); compare cognates in other Baltic-Finnic languages (Finnish selkä (“back, open water”), Estonian selg (“back”), dialectal sälg).^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [sǣlɡa]

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Noun edit

selga f (4th declension)

a deep place, far from the coast (of a sea, big lake, river, etc.); the deep sea; the open sea
izbraukt selgā ― to go to the deep, open sea; to leave the coast

kuģis izbraucis selgā ― the ship left the coast (into the open sea)

vējš pūš no selgas ― the wind is blowing from seaways, from the open sea

Declension edit

Declension of selga (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	selga	selgas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	selgu	selgas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	selgas	selgu
dative (datīvs)	selgai	selgām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	selgu	selgām
locative (lokatīvs)	selgā	selgās
vocative (vokatīvs)	selga	selgas

References edit

^ Karulis, Konstantīns. 1992, 2001. This word is first mentioned in 18th-century dictionaries.Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: AVOTS. →ISBN.

[1] Karulis, Konstantīns. 1992, 2001. This word is first mentioned in 18th-century dictionaries.Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca. Rīga: AVOTS. →ISBN.

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