Noun: dvēsele
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | dvēsele |
| Accusative | dvēseli |
| Genitive | dvēseles |
| Dative | dvēselei |
| Instrumental | dvēseli |
| Locative | dvēselē |
| Vocative | dvēsele |
Plural
| Nominative | dvēseles |
| Accusative | dvēseles |
| Genitive | dvēseļu |
| Dative | dvēselēm |
| Instrumental | dvēselēm |
| Locative | dvēselēs |
| Vocative | dvēseles |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like dvēsele
mēslvabole,
vēzele,
metropole,
viesmīle,
pasaule,
smalkvīle,
normāle,
centrāle,
dzeloņu stieple,
datorspēle,
dvēsele,
klausule,
strēmele,
akmeņogle,
skaistule,
ābele,
ēvele,
rupjvīle,
šķēle,
dzeloņstieple, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Balto-Slavic [Term?], ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwes- (“to breathe; breath, spirit, soul”) whence Latvian dvest (“to breathe”).
2. Cognate with Lithuanian dvėselė (“soul; (dialectal) strength”) as well as more distantly daũsios and dvė̃sti; Slavic *dušà and *dȗxъ; Gaulish dusios; and English deer (originally "living thing" < "soul"). See: English Nouns '
deer'.
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