lapsene
Danish
editNoun
editlapsene c
Latvian
editEtymology
editFrom an earlier *lapsa + -ene, modified from *vapsa under the influence of lapsa (“fox”), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wáps, from Proto-Indo-European *wóps, from a stem *webʰ- with different meanings (perhaps different homophonous stems): “to weave, to braid” (so that the wasps would have originally been seen as “those that weave (their own nest)”), and also “to scurry, to dart, to teem” (“teeming, darting insects”). Cognates include Lithuanian vapsvà, dialectal vapsà, Old Prussian wobse, Proto-Slavic *osa (Russian, Ukrainian оса́ (osá), Belarusian аса́ (asá), асва́ (asvá), Czech vosa, Polish osa), Old High German wefsa, wafsa, German Wespe, Latin vespa (< *wospā), Ossetian ӕвз- (ævz-), ӕфс (æfs, “bee”) (< Proto-Iranian *wabza-, *wapsa-).[1]
Pronunciation
editNoun
editlapsene f (5th declension)
- wasp (many species of stinging flying insects resembling bees)
- lapseņu ligzda, pūznis ― wasp nest
- lapsenes kodiens ― wasp bite
- lapsenes dzēlums ― wasp sting
- lapseņu spiets ― wasp swarm
- vientuļās, sabiedriskās lapsenes ― lonely, social wasps
- domas pa galvu kā lapsenes šaudās ― thoughts shoot around like wasps in his head
- lielās, strīpotās lapsenes lidoja sirdīgi ap caurumu ― the large, striped wasps flew angrily around the hole
Declension
editsingular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | lapsene | lapsenes |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | lapseni | lapsenes |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | lapsenes | lapseņu |
dative (datīvs) | lapsenei | lapsenēm |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | lapseni | lapsenēm |
locative (lokatīvs) | lapsenē | lapsenēs |
vocative (vokatīvs) | lapsene | lapsenes |
References
edit- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “lapsene”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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