valks

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valks

Related to the verbs vilkt (“to pull, draw, drag”) and valkāt (“to wear”), all from Proto-Baltic *wilk-, from Proto-Indo-European *welk- (“to pull, draw, drag”).^[1]

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valks

(rare) something for everyday, not special (esp. clothes)
manas valka drēbes varēsi paņemt ― my everyday clothes you can take

By itself, valks is rather rare; derived nouns such as pārvalks (“cover, case”) or uzvalks (“suit”) are much more frequent.

Declension of valks (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	valks	valki
accusative (akuzatīvs)	valku	valkus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	valka	valku
dative (datīvs)	valkam	valkiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	valku	valkiem
locative (lokatīvs)	valkā	valkos
vocative (vokatīvs)	valk	valki

From Proto-Indo-European *welk- (“to pull, draw, drag”), here probably influenced by Proto-Indo-European *welg- (“humid, wet”); see Latvian valgs (“moist, humid, damp”).^[2]

valks

(dialectal) creek, brook, small water stream
viņa aizstaigā līdz valkam ― she walked to the stream

viņas gāja pāri valkam pa iztrupējušu tiltiņu ― they went over the brook on a little rotten bridge

Declension of valks (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	valks	valki
accusative (akuzatīvs)	valku	valkus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	valka	valku
dative (datīvs)	valkam	valkiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	valku	valkiem
locative (lokatīvs)	valkā	valkos
vocative (vokatīvs)	valk	valki

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