Noun: kalns
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | kalns |
| Accusative | kalnu |
| Genitive | kalna |
| Dative | kalnam |
| Instrumental | kalnu |
| Locative | kalnā |
| Vocative | kalns |
Plural
| Nominative | kalni |
| Accusative | kalnus |
| Genitive | kalnu |
| Dative | kalniem |
| Instrumental | kalniem |
| Locative | kalnos |
| Vocative | kalni |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like kalns
vēders,
akvārijs,
ziloņkauls,
iekaisums,
šāvējs,
ģitārists,
ābols,
dievs,
ezers,
tārps,
omārs,
bērns,
kakls,
kalns,
kauls,
putns,
zieds,
gājiens,
grāmatsējējs,
deguns, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Proto-Baltic *kalˀnás
2. with a suffix -no, from Proto-Indo-European *kelH-, *kolH- (“to raise, to lift, to build”), whence also Latvian celt. The meaning of celt was originally not only “to lift,” but also “to be high”, whence the meaning of kalns. This word was also sometimes used in the past to mean “building, construction,” especially tall ones in large estates. Cognates include Lithuanian kálnas, Gothic 𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌿𐍃 (hallus, “rock, cliff”) (< *kolnus), Old English holm (“hill, knoll”) (< Proto-Germanic *kl̥mo), German Holm (“islet”), Ancient Greek κολωνός (kolōnós), Latin collis (“knoll, hill”) (< *colnis). See: Gothic Nouns '
𐌷𐌰𐌻𐌻𐌿𐍃', Old English Nouns '
holm', German Nouns '
Holm', Latin Nouns '
collis'.
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