pudele

See also: pudelē

Latvian

Pudele

Alternative forms

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle Low German buddel, itself borrowed from French bouteille, from Late Latin buticula, the diminutive form of buttis (“barrel”), from Ancient Greek βοῦθις (boûthis, “barrel”). The word is first mentioned as budele in 18th-century dictionaries; the current form (with b > p, perhaps under Livonian influence, but also perhaps a dialectal feature) became popular in the 19th century. Another form butele, found in some dialects, is apparently an independent loan, from Baltic German buttel, from which also Russian буты́лка (butýlka).[1]

Noun

pudele f (5th declension)

  1. bottle (container with a tapered top for storing liquids)
    stikla, papīra pudele ― glass, paper bottle
    piena, alus, vīna pudele ― milk, beer, wine bottle
    graduēta pudele ― graduated bottle
    pudeles kakls ― bottle neck
    pudeles vēders ― bottle body (lit. belly)
    pudeļu stikls ― bottle glass
    pudeļu laka ― bottle polish
    skalot pudeles ― to rinse the bottles
    ieliet pudelē ūdeni ― to pour water into the bottle
    termosa pudele, termospudele ― thermos bottle
    Arturs atkorķēja pudeli un nolika to uz galda ― Arturs opened the bottle and put it on the table
  2. bottle (the container and its contents)
    nopirkt divas sulas pudeles ― to buy two bottles of juice
  3. bottle (its contents)
    izdzert limonādes pudeli ― to drink a bottle of lemonade

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References

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