lapsene
Danish
Noun
lapsene c
- definite plural of laps
Latvian
Etymology
From 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 *vopsā (Russian, Ukrainian оса́ (osá), Belarusian аса́ (asá), асва́ (asvá), Czech vosa, Polish osa), Old High German wefsa, wafsa, German Wespe, Latin vespa (< *vopsa), Ossetian ӕвз- (ævz-), ӕфс (æfs, “bee”) (< Proto-Iranian *wabza-, *wapsa-).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [lapsɛnɛ]
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Noun
lapsene 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
| singular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
|---|---|---|
| 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
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “lapsene”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN