stulms

English

stulms

Stulmu zābaki

From Proto-Baltic *stulm-, from Proto-Indo-European *stl̥m, from the zero grade form of *stel- (“to put in standing position; to stand; standing, immobile, stiff”) with an extra element -m. Cognates include Swedish stolm (“stubble”).^[1]

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stulms m (1st declension)

top of a boot, the part that covers the shin up to the knees; boot leg
stulmu zābaki ― boots that have (boot)legs

sabāzt bikšu galus stulmos ― stuff the ends of one's pants into one's boot legs

Declension of stulms (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	stulms	stulmi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	stulmu	stulmus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	stulma	stulmu
dative (datīvs)	stulmam	stulmiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	stulmu	stulmiem
locative (lokatīvs)	stulmā	stulmos
vocative (vokatīvs)	stulm	stulmi

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