spārns – Latvian noun declension

Noun: spārns
Hyphenation:

Gender: Masculine Declension:

Singular

Nominative	spārns
Accusative	spārnu
Genitive	spārna
Dative	spārnam
Instrumental	spārnu
Locative	spārnā
Vocative	spārn

Plural

Nominative	spārni
Accusative	spārnus
Genitive	spārnu
Dative	spārniem
Instrumental	spārniem
Locative	spārnos
Vocative	spārni

Sample Sentences

putna, tauriņa, sienāža spārns (a bird's, butterfly's, grasshopper's wing)
izplest spārnus (to open, spread one's wings)
sakļaust spārnus (to close one's wings)
spārnu vēzieni (wingbeats)
lidmašīnas spārns (airplane wing)
kuģa dzenskrūves spārni (ship propeller wings)
velosidpēda dakšas spārni (bicycle fork prongs (lit. wings))
no vienas ēkas spārna uz otru (from one wing of the building to the other)
labajā spārnā atrodas bibliotēka (the library is situated in the right wing)
pulkvedis ar savu adjutantu piejāja līdz pozīcijas labajam spārnam (the colonel and his aide rode up to (their) position's right flank)
filozofijas skolas radikālais spārns (the radical wing of the philosophical school)

Nouns inflected like spārns

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

From Proto-Baltic *sparnas (with lengthening of the *a), from Proto-Indo-European *sper-no- (“wing”), from the stem *per-, *sper- (with s-mobile; or else the /s/ may result from the influence of the stem *sper- (“to twitch, to flicker”)), perhaps meaning originally “over (away from)”, then “carry (away)”, “fly (away)”. Cognates include Lithuanian spar̃nas, Old Church Slavonic перо (pero, “feather”), Russian перо́ (peró), Ukrainian перо́ (peró), Bulgarian перо́ (peró), Upper Sorbian pjero, German Farn, English fern, Hittite [script needed] (partau̯ar, “feather”), Sanskrit पर्ण (parṇá, “feather; leaf”). See: German Nouns 'Farn', English Nouns 'fern'.