Noun: dundurs
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | dundurs |
| Accusative | dunduru |
| Genitive | dundura |
| Dative | dunduram |
| Instrumental | dunduru |
| Locative | dundurā |
| Vocative | dundur |
Plural
| Nominative | dunduri |
| Accusative | dundurus |
| Genitive | dunduru |
| Dative | dunduriem |
| Instrumental | dunduriem |
| Locative | dunduros |
| Vocative | dunduri |
Sample Sentences
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dunduru laiks (horsefly time, weather)
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atgaiņāt dundurus (to repel, drive away horseflies)
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rūc kā dundurs ((s/he) growls like a horsefly (i.e., sings very badly))
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dunduri ēda nost zirgus un uzbruka arī cilvēkiem, kur vien varēdami piekļūt un pasūkt asinis (horseflies ate away the horses and attacked also people, wherever they could go and suck blood)
Nouns inflected like dundurs
gredzens,
greznums,
sniegs,
salāts,
sakars,
diftongs,
smaids,
sonets,
sivēns,
dienests,
piecnieks,
skudrs,
skvērs,
skaits,
pacients,
vilciens,
realizējums,
skatiens,
izskats,
spoguļattēls, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Derived from the verb dundēt (“to thunder”), etymologically a variant of dunēt (“to drone, to boom”) (q.v.): both iterative-intensive forms of a no longer existing verb *dunt (“to resound”). The word was originally a reference to the low-pitched buzzing noise made by horseflies. Cognates include Lithuanian dunduris (“thunder, thunderclap”), dundurỹs (“horsefly”), Middle Dutch dunder, German Donner (“thunder”). See: German Nouns '
Donner'.
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