aploks

Latvian

Etymology

Perhaps from ap- +‎ loks (“circle”). (This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

aploks m (1st declension)

  1. enclosure for farm animals to live or to graze, corral, pen, paddock, enclosed pasture
    cūku aploks ― pig pen
    teļu aploks ― calf pen
    turēt govis aplokā ― to keep the cows in the corral
    viņa katru rītu paganīja lopus un zirgu uz papuves un tade sadzina aplokā ― every morning she took the (farm) animals and the horse to the fallow to graze and then brought them (back) to the corral

Declension

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