tāss

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

Latvian

Bērzu tāss

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

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

IPA^(key): [tāːss]

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Noun

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

Declension of *tāss* (6th declension)
	singular	plural
nominative	tāss	tāsis
genitive	tāss	tāšu
dative	tāsij	tāsīm
accusative	tāsi	tāsis
instrumental	tāsi	tāsīm
locative	tāsī	tāsīs
vocative	tāss	tāsis

References

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

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

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