Noun: vārds
Hyphenation:
Gender: Masculine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | vārds |
| Accusative | vārdu |
| Genitive | vārda |
| Dative | vārdam |
| Instrumental | vārdu |
| Locative | vārdā |
| Vocative | vārd |
Plural
| Nominative | vārdi |
| Accusative | vārdus |
| Genitive | vārdu |
| Dative | vārdiem |
| Instrumental | vārdiem |
| Locative | vārdos |
| Vocative | vārdi |
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like vārds
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
1. From Proto-Baltic *wardas, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wardas, a masculine parallel form to neuter *wardan, from Proto-Indo-European *werdʰom (“word”), from the stem *werh₁- (“to speak, say, talk”).
2. Note the typical Baltic polysemy between “name” and “word”, since the Proto-Indo-European term for “name”, still conserved in Old Prussian emnes, emmens (< Proto-Indo-European *h₁nómn̥), was lost and replaced by *werdʰo-.
3. Cognates include Lithuanian var̃das, Old Prussian wīrds, wirds, Sudovian ward, Russian врать (vratʹ, “to lie”), Belarusian вярзці́ (vjarzcí, “to lie”), Ukrainian верзти́ (verztý, “to lie”), Proto-Germanic *wurdą (Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (waurd), German Wort, English word, Icelandic orð), Hittite ḫurt- (“to load, to charge”) (: weriya- “to say”), Sanskrit व्रत (vrata, “vow, command”), Ancient Greek εἴρω (eírō, “to say”) (< *weryō), Latin verbum. See: Gothic Nouns '
𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳', German Nouns '
Wort', English Nouns '
word', Icelandic Nouns '
orð', Latin Nouns '
verbum'.
Verbs referencing "vārds"
English Nouns
word, Finnish Nouns
virsi.
Translations