Noun: leitis
Hyphenation:
Gender:
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | leitis |
| Accusative | leiti |
| Genitive | leiša |
| Dative | leitim |
| Instrumental | leiti |
| Locative | leitī |
| Vocative | leiti |
Plural
| Nominative | leiši |
| Accusative | leišus |
| Genitive | leišu |
| Dative | leišiem |
| Instrumental | leišiem |
| Locative | leišos |
| Vocative | leiši |
Sample Sentences
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strādnieki... kalpi, vai tie būtu vācieši, leiši, krievi, ebreji, mums draugi (workers... servants, be they Germans, Lithuanians, Russians, Jews, are friends to us)
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leišu valoda (the Lithuanian language)
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Aspazija pieraksta leišu sakāmvardus un mīklas (Aspazija recorded Lithuanian proverbs and riddles)
Nouns inflected like leitis
vilnītis,
īslandietis,
holandietis,
vīrietis,
lihtenšteinietis,
irānietis,
latvietis,
tūkstotis,
kiprietis,
irākietis,
kambodžietis,
šampanietis,
beļģietis,
vācietis,
islandietis,
libānietis,
kosovietis,
cepetis,
taizemietis,
bosnietis, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From *leit- (related to Latin lītus (“sea coast, beach”) < *leitos), from Proto-Baltic *lei-, *lie- with an extra -t, from Proto-Indo-European *ley-, *lī- (“to pour, to flow, to drip”). The stem was perhaps originally a reference to people from the "land of the rain" or "land of the rivers." It is also possible that there was an original river or lake name *Leitā, from which *leitā-tyā, *leityā > leiša, from which the nominative leitis could be derived. See: Latin Nouns '
lītus'.
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