Noun: alga
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension: First
Genitive
| Singular | algae |
| Plural | algārum |
Dative
| Singular | algae |
| Plural | algīs |
Accusative
| Singular | algam |
| Plural | algās |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like alga
scōria,
meschīta,
sewera,
zōnula,
ecclēsia,
concurrentia,
satira,
satura,
satyra,
sagīna,
sagēna,
sarīsa,
salīva,
salīna,
sampsa,
samara,
sacēna,
salvia,
sabīna,
sculna, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Of unknown origin, though probably a foreign substrate loanword related to ulva (“various grass-like or rush-like aquatic plants”). Note also similar dubiously-related forms in Baltic and Germanic with connotations of filth and dirtiness, including Lithuanian el̃mės, almens (“ichor, sanies”), (dialectal) Norwegian ul (“moldy”), olga (“to loathe”), elgja (“to fell like vomiting”), ulma (“to get moldy”), Middle Low German olm, ulm (“rottenness (esp. of wood)”), and Dutch uilig (“moldy (of wood)”). These terms have been tentatively linked to a Proto-Indo-European *alg-, *alǵ- (“to be dirty, be slimy; frog; duckweed”); other similar forms include dialectal Norwegian alka (“to dirty, soil”), Norwegian ulk (“frog, slime”), Low German ulk (“frog”). That said, it is possible that the Baltic and Germanic are not related to the Latin, or that all the terms derive from the same substrate.
Verbs referencing "alga"
Catalan Nouns
alga, Faroese Nouns
alga, Irish Nouns
alga, Italian Nouns
alga, Old Spanish Nouns
alga, Polish Nouns
alga, Dutch Nouns
alg, Swedish Nouns
alg, English Nouns
algology, Romanian Nouns
algă, French Nouns
algue, German Nouns
Alge, Norwegian Bokmål Nouns
alge, Norwegian Nynorsk Nouns
alge.
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