tāss

See also: tass, Tass, TASs, TASS, and TAS's

Latvian edit

Bērzu tāss

Alternative forms edit

(dialectal forms) tāsis, tāse
(dialectal forms) tāsts, tāste

Etymology edit

From verb tāst, an archaic and dialectal variant of test, tēst (“to cut, to hew, to trim”); the form follows the pattern of lest, lēst, lāse (compare dialectal forms tāsis, tāse; compare also other dialectal variants above). A comparable synonym term exists in Balto-Finnic languages (e.g., Finnish tuohi) which suggests borrowing between Baltic and Balto-Finnic, but the direction of the borrowing is not clear. Cognates include Lithuanian tóšis.^[1]

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): [tāːss]

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Noun edit

tāss f (6th declension)

birchbark (white bark of the birch tree, formerly used as writing material)
bērzu tāss ― birch bark

tāšu iekuri ― birch (bark) kindling

tāšu darva ― birch (bark) tar

tāšu taure ― birch (bark) horn

Declension edit

Declension of tāss (6th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	tāss	tāsis
accusative (akuzatīvs)	tāsi	tāsis
genitive (ģenitīvs)	tāss	tāšu
dative (datīvs)	tāsij	tāsīm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	tāsi	tāsīm
locative (lokatīvs)	tāsī	tāsīs
vocative (vokatīvs)	tāss	tāsis

References edit

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

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

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