āre

See also: Appendix:Variations of "are"

Latvian

Etymology 1

Etymologically a variant of ārs (“outside, exterior”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [âːɾɛ]

Noun

āre f (5th declension)

  1. (poetic) open space, open; cultivated land, fields
    traktoru rūkoņa kolhoza ārēs jau bija apklususi ― the tractors' noise in the cultivated land of the kolkhoz had already silenced
    kalni dun un ielejas / meži šalc sev pāri / vēsts šī dziesmā ielejas / plūst pār dzimto āri ― the mountains and valleys rumble / the forests rustle / the message in this song (over) the valleys / flows, over (our) native open space
    marts liegu dūmaku pār birzīm klāj, / ar smaržām piepilda ik āri ― (the month of) March covered the groves (with) a gentle haze, / it filled each cultivated field with a (pleasant) scent
Declension
Synonyms

Etymology 2

Unclear.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [āːɾɛ]

Interjection

āre

  1. look!; see? (used to draw the listener's attention to something, be it a physical object or an idea, a thought)
    āre, tur jau viņš nāk! ― look! there he comes!
    āre, kur ir! ― look where (he, she, it) is! look, there (he, she, it) is!
    āre, nebija vis tā, kā tu teici! ― see? it wasn't all as you said (it would be)!
    pagāja vēl kādi gadi, un āre - Roplains vairs neslīdēja uz leju, bet sāka celties ― a few more years passed, and now look: Roplains was not sliding down anymore, he began to go up
Synonyms

References

  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “āre”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian [Term?], from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”). Compare Tocharian B āre.

Noun

āre

  1. plough

Tocharian B

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tocharian, from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”). Compare Tocharian A āre.

Noun

āre ?

  1. plough

Etymology 2

A form of ār- (“to cease, end”).

Noun

āre ?

  1. end

Etymology 3

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-, making it cognate with English earth. Not related to *h₂erh₃-.

Noun

āre ?

  1. dust, loose earth

Further reading

  • Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “āre”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN
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