uts

See also: UTS, üts', and üts

English

Noun

uts

1. plural of ut

Anagrams

• SUT, Stu, Tsu, UST, ust

Basque

Noun

uts ?

1. hole

See also

• huskune

Catalan

Noun

uts

1. plural of ut

Kalasha

Etymology

From Sanskrit उत्स (utsa). Cognate with Khowar اُڅ (uts).

Noun

uts

1. spring (water source)

Latvian

Uts

Etymology

Usually derived from Proto-Indo-European *wēt-, *wet-, *ut-, from the stem *wē- (“to blow”) (whence also Latin vējš (“wind”), q.v.) with a suffix -t.

J. Endzelīns, connecting this word to Old Prussian wutris (“blacksmith”), and noting the ancient link between the notions of “forging” and “pricking, piercing” (compare Latvian kalt (“to forge”), Russian коло́ть (kolótʹ, “to pierce”)), suggested that the original meaning of uts was “that which pierces; stitch.”

Another opinion is that uts (via *wet-, with a suffix -t) derives from Proto-Indo-European *eu- (“to feel”) (whence also Latvian just (“to feel”), q.v.), so that its original meaning would have been “that which is felt, which irritates”.

A third suggestion is that uts comes from Proto-Indo-European *lus-, *luH- (“louse”) (compare Lithuanian liũlė, German Laus, English louse), a word which many daughter languages altered or abandoned, perhaps because of linguistic taboos; in the Baltic case, only the middle u would have been kept, with an extra suffix -t. Cognates include Lithuanian utėlė̃, dialectal utė̃, utìs.

Noun

uts f (6th declension)

1. louse, lice (many species of small insect parasites, all in the order Psocodea)

   galvas, drēbju uts ― head, clothes lice

   kaunuma uts ― pubic lice

   utu ķemme ― lice comb (for removing lice)

Declension

Declension of uts (6th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	uts	utis
accusative (akuzatīvs)	uti	utis
genitive (ģenitīvs)	uts	utu
dative (datīvs)	utij	utīm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	uti	utīm
locative (lokatīvs)	utī	utīs
vocative (vokatīvs)	uts	utis

Derived terms

• utains

Phalura

Etymology

From Sanskrit उत्स (utsa, “spring of water (masc)”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /uts/

Noun

uts m (Perso-Arabic spelling اُڅ)

1. spring (of water)

Inflection

a-decl (Obl, pl): -a

References

• Liljegren, Henrik, Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎^[1], Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “uts”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press