Noun: virsa
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
| Nominative | virsa |
| Accusative | virsu |
| Genitive | virsas |
| Dative | virsai |
| Instrumental | virsu |
| Locative | virsā |
| Vocative | virsa |
Plural
| Nominative | virsas |
| Accusative | virsas |
| Genitive | virsu |
| Dative | virsām |
| Instrumental | virsām |
| Locative | virsās |
| Vocative | virsas |
Sample Sentences
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galda virsa (table top)
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siena krāvuma virsa (top of a hay stack)
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cepure ar platu virsu (hat with a wide top)
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ūdens virsas temperatūra (water surface temperature)
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apavu virsa (surface of a shoe)
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pulksteņa virsa atmirdzēja kā zelts (the surface of the clock was shining like gold)
Nouns inflected like virsa
tulkošana,
secība,
sezona,
saruna,
sajūta,
samaņa,
smarža,
skudra,
sklēra,
muļķība,
pirmdiena,
bebrāda,
skaudība,
kaklarota,
psihiatrija,
vīksna,
vīnoga,
izmaksa,
sešpaka,
melnaugļu aronija, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
A variant of the (now rarer) term virsus, from Proto-Balto-Slavic *wíršus, Proto-Indo-European *wers-, from *wer- (“elevated place”) with an extra suffix -s. Cognates include Lithuanian viršùs, Proto-Slavic *vьrxъ (Old Church Slavonic врьхъ (vrĭxŭ), Russian, Belarusian, Ukrainian верх (verx), Bulgarian връх (vrăh), Czech vrch, Polish wierzch), Old English wearr (“hardened blister, wart”), dialectal German Werre (“eye inflammation, stye”), Old Irish ferr (“better”), Sanskrit वर्ष्मन् (varṣmán, “height, highest part, peak, top, end”), Latin verrūca (“wart”). See: Bulgarian Nouns '
връх', Czech Nouns '
vrch', Polish Nouns '
wierzch', Old English Nouns '
wearr', Latin Nouns '
verrūca'.
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