Noun: šausmas
Hyphenation:
Gender: Feminine
Declension:
Singular
Plural
| Nominative | šausmas |
| Accusative | šausmas |
| Genitive | šausmu |
| Dative | šausmām |
| Instrumental | šausmām |
| Locative | šausmās |
| Vocative | šausmas |
Sample Sentences
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šausmu pārņemts (horror-struck)
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iedvest šausmas (to inspire horror, terror)
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iekliegties no šausmām (to cry out in horror)
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šausmu kliedziens (horror scream)
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sastingt šausmās (to freeze in terror, horror)
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kara šausmas (the horror of war)
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šausmu lietas (horrible things, affairs)
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šausmu filma (horror movie)
Nouns inflected like šausmas
iekšlietas,
pļāpas,
vējdzirnavas,
pelavas,
aukslējas,
paniņas,
vējbakas,
derības,
plaušas,
paģiras,
garamantas,
skumjas,
Lieldienas,
briesmas,
siekalas,
zemlikas,
šaubas,
žagas,
lamatas,
aizdomas, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From an unattested verb *šaust (“make (hair, feathers) stand”) (compare Lithuanian šiaũsti (“to dishevel, to comb upward; to raise (feathers)”)), from Proto-Baltic *šiaus-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱew- (“to swell, to bend”) (hence “protrude, ruffle, make stand”), with an extra -s. The meaning “to make (hair) stand” became in the noun šausmas “great fear, terror”.
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