kartupelis
Latvian
Kartupeļi
Etymology
A borrowing, from Baltic German Low German Kartoffel, Kartuffel (compare High German Kartoffel, Danish kartoffel), from a Romance language: compare Romansch tartuffel, Italian tartufalo, from tartufo (“truffle”).
The Latvian form is first attested at the beginning of the 18th century. A number of other (often unrelated) terms for “potato” exist in Latvian dialects alongside the standard word.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [kārtupelis]
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Noun
kartupelis m (2nd declension)
- potato (plant, Solanum tuberosum, with tubers eaten as a starchy vegetable)
- kartupeļu (lakstu) puve ― potato (stem) rot (= a potato disease)
- kartupeļu šķirnes ― potato varieties
- potato (the tubers of the potato plant)
- rakt kartupeļus ― to dig for potatoes
- kartupeļu maiss ― potato sack
- mizot, vārīt, cept kartupeļus ― to peel, to boil, to bake potatoes
- kartupeļu biezenis, biezputra ― mashed potatoes (lit. potato puree)
Declension
Declension of kartupelis (2nd declension)
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative (nominatīvs) | kartupelis | kartupeļi |
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | kartupeli | kartupeļus |
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | kartupeļa | kartupeļu |
| dative (datīvs) | kartupelim | kartupeļiem |
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | kartupeli | kartupeļiem |
| locative (lokatīvs) | kartupelī | kartupeļos |
| vocative (vokatīvs) | kartupeli | kartupeļi |
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “kartupelis”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN