kāss

From an older (still dialectally attested) word kāsus, from Proto-Baltic *kās-, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷās- (“cough, to cough”).

Cognates include Lithuanian kosulỹs, Proto-Slavic *kaš(ь)lь (Russian ка́шель (kášelʹ), Bulgarian ка́шлица (kášlica), Czech kašel, Polish kaszel), Old High German huosto, German Husten, Sanskrit कासते (kāsate).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [kāːs]

kāss m (1st declension)

1. cough, coughing (a sudden noisy burst of air from one's mouth, often a disease symptom)

   tas bija liels un nepārtraukts kāss ― that was a big, uninterrupted cough(ing)

   lāgiem viņai uznāca kāss, tad viņa ilgi kāsēja bez balss, gandrīz nosmakdama ― sometimes she had a cough, then she coughed without voice for a while, almost stifling

   sauss, rejošs kāss mainās ar sēcošas aizdusas brīžiem ― a dry, barking (= deep) cough sometimes alternates with wheezing shortness of breath

• klepus

• kāsēt