pļāpa

See also: pļāpā

Latvian

Etymology

From the stem of pļāpāt (q.v.), made into an ambigenous (masculine and/or feminine) fourth declension noun.[1]

Noun

pļāpa m or f (4th declension)

  1. chatty person, chatterbox
    pļāpa un muļķis dzīvē allaž iet blakām ― the chatterbox and the fool often go side by side in life
    Dartfordā notikušajās pļāpu sacensībās kāds Šihins neaizvēra muti 133 stundas! ― in a tournament of chatty people that happened in Dartford a certain Šihins did not close (his) mouth (for) 133 hours!

Usage notes

The term pļāpa is ambigenous. It is masculine when it refers to males and feminine when it refers to females. It is, however, always declined as a feminine noun, with the exception of its dative singular form, which is pļāpam when it refers to a male and pļāpai when it refers to a female.

Declension

Declension of pļāpa (4th declension)
singular plural
nominative pļāpa pļāpas
genitive pļāpas pļāpu
dative pļāpam, pļāpai pļāpām
accusative pļāpu pļāpas
instrumental pļāpu pļāpām
locative pļāpā pļāpās
vocative pļāpa pļāpas

References

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “pļāpāt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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