šunelis

Latvian
Šunelis

Etymology

Possibly from an (unattested) variant *šuns of suns (“dog”) (compare Proto-Baltic *šunas (“dog”)).[1]

Noun

šunelis m (2nd declension)

  1. little dog; diminutive of suns
    kādam skolas kaimiņam bija šunelis, tāds kucēns, kuram tomēr bija skaļa balss ― one of the school neighbors had a little dog, a puppy that, however, had a loud voice

Declension
Declension of šunelis (2nd declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) šunelis šuneļi
accusative (akuzatīvs) šuneli šuneļus
genitive (ģenitīvs) šuneļa šuneļu
dative (datīvs) šunelim šuneļiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) šuneli šuneļiem
locative (lokatīvs) šunelī šuneļos
vocative (vokatīvs) šuneli šuneļi

Synonyms

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “suns”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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