gnīda – Latvian noun declension

Noun: gnīda
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine, Feminine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	gnīda
Accusative	gnīdu
Genitive	gnīdas
Dative	gnīdam; gnīdai
Instrumental	gnīdu
Locative	gnīdā
Vocative	gnīda

Plural

Nominative	gnīdas
Accusative	gnīdas
Genitive	gnīdu
Dative	gnīdām
Instrumental	gnīdām
Locative	gnīdās
Vocative	gnīdas

Sample Sentences

gnīdas matos (nits in the hair)
galvas utis apmetas cilvēka matos; pie matiem tās pielīmē savas oliņas - gnīdas (head lice settle on human hair; and by that hair they stick their eggs: nits)
vārīja ilgi un teica, ka nu vairs neviena gnīda dzīva nebūšot palikusi (she boiled (the clothes) for a long time and (then) said that not a single living nit had remained)
tas bijis turpat kaimiņa saimnieks, īsts gnīda (that had been the neighbor, a true nit (= despicable person))
“tu mani te nebaidi, gnīda!” tēvocis izkliedza (“so you're not afraid of me here, you maggot!” (his) uncle shouted)

Nouns inflected like gnīda

jūras lauva, aizmārša, gnīda, lauva, aba, pļāpa, slepkava, nejēga,

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *gnī́ˀdāˀ. Cognates include Lithuanian gli̇̀nda (< *gninda), Proto-Slavic *gňida (Russian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian гни́да (gnída), Belarusian гні́да (hnída), Czech hnida, Polish gnida), Old Norse gnit, Swedish gnet, English nit. See: Czech Nouns 'hnida', Polish Nouns 'gnida', English Nouns 'nit'.