strazds
Latvian
Alternative forms
- (dialectal form) strads
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *trazdas with an additional initial s-, from Proto-Indo-European *trosdos (“thrush”). In some Latvian dialects, the z was eliminated by dissimilation, yielding strads.
Cognates include Lithuanian strãzdas, dialectal strazdà, strazà, strãzas, Old Prussian tresde, Proto-Slavic *trozdъ, from *drozdъ (Russian, Bulgarian дрозд (drozd), Ukrainian дрізд (drizd), Czech drozd, dialectal drozda, zdrozda, drozen, Polish drozd), Proto-Germanic *þrau(d)-st-, *þrōst-, *þrast-ur (Old High German drōsca-, German Drossel, English throstle, Old Norse þrǭstr-, Norwegian trost, Swedish trast), Breton trask, draskl, tred, dred, Latin turdus (< *tr̥zdos) (Spanish tordo, Portuguese tordo, Italian tordo).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
strazds m (1st declension)
- starling, thrush, throstle (gregarious birds of the families Sturnidae and Turdidae; various species)
- strazdu dzimta ― the starling family (Sturnidae)
- strazdu būris ― a bird house (for starlings)
- mājas strazds ― common (lit. house) starling (Sturnus vulgaris)
- sila strazds ― mistle thrush (Turdus viscivorus)
- dziedātājstrazds ― song thrush (Turdus philomelos)
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | strazds | strazdi |
| genitive | strazda | strazdu |
| dative | strazdam | strazdiem |
| accusative | strazdu | strazdus |
| instrumental | strazdu | strazdiem |
| locative | strazdā | strazdos |
| vocative | strazd | strazdi |
Derived terms
References
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “strazds”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary][1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN