strauts

Latvian

Strauts

Etymology

From a 17th-century verb straut (“to flow, to float”) (later replaced by straust (“to flow quickly, to stream”)), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”), with an epenthetic t (whence also straujš (“quick, fast”)). Cognates include Lithuanian sraũtas (“stream, current, flow”) (dialectal straũtas), Sanskrit स्रोत (srótas-, “flow, river”); for the old verb straut, compare also Lithuanian iterative verb sravė́ti (“to flow slowly”), Sanskrit स्रवति (srávati, “to flow”), Ancient Greek ῥέω (rhéō, “to flow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [strāūts]

Noun

strauts m (1st declension)

1. creek, brook, small water stream

   kalnu, meža strauts ― mountain, forest stream

   sniegūdens strauts ― snow water stream

   strauts urdz, čalo ― the stream purls, murmurs

   strauts burbuļo ― the stream bubbles

   strautu forele ― brook trout

Declension

Declension of strauts (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	strauts	strauti
accusative (akuzatīvs)	strautu	strautus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	strauta	strautu
dative (datīvs)	strautam	strautiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	strautu	strautiem
locative (lokatīvs)	strautā	strautos
vocative (vokatīvs)	straut	strauti

Synonyms

• (dialectal term) valks

Related terms

• straume
• straujš
• strāva