knašs
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Baltic *knas- (which, with *-yos, yields *knaš-yos > knašs), from Proto-Indo-European *kn-es-, *kn-os-, from the zero grade of *ken- (“to try, to hurry, to move”). A different hypothesis is that knašs might originally result from methatesis on nasks (q.v.). A third possibility is that it was a borrowing from Baltic German knasch (“hurried, quick, agile”), although it is also quite possible that knasch was borrowed from Latvian knašs, since it was only found in Baltic varieties of German. Cognates include Ancient Greek ἐγκονέω (enkonéō, “to hurry, to be quick and active”), Latin cōnor (“to try, to attempt”).[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]knašs (definite knašais, comparative knašāks, superlative visknašākais, adverb knaši)
- quick, fast, swift; also, agile
- knaša meitene ― swift, quick girl
- knašs zēns ― swift, quck boy
- iet knašiem soļiem ― to go with quick, swift steps
- saskubintās knašam riksim, zirgs drīz vien mēgināja pāriet gausākā solī ― spurred into a quick canter, the horse soon tried to shift to a slower pace
Declension
[edit]indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of knašs
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
nominative (nominatīvs) | knašs | knaši | knaša | knašas | |||||
accusative (akuzatīvs) | knašu | knašus | knašu | knašas | |||||
genitive (ģenitīvs) | knaša | knašu | knašas | knašu | |||||
dative (datīvs) | knašam | knašiem | knašai | knašām | |||||
instrumental (instrumentālis) | knašu | knašiem | knašu | knašām | |||||
locative (lokatīvs) | knašā | knašos | knašā | knašās | |||||
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Synonyms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “knašs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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