tāss

See also: tass, Tass, TASs, TASS, and TAS's

Latvian
Bērzu tāss

Alternative forms

Etymology

From verb tāst, an archaic and dialectal variant of test, tēst (“to cut, to hew, to trim”); the form follows the pattern of lest, lēst, lāse (compare dialectal forms tāsis, tāse; compare also other dialectal variants above). A comparable synonym term exists in Balto-Finnic languages (e.g., Finnish tuohi) which suggests borrowing between Baltic and Balto-Finnic, but the direction of the borrowing is not clear. Cognates include Lithuanian tóšis.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [tāːss]

Noun

tāss f (6th declension)

  1. birchbark (white bark of the birch tree, formerly used as writing material)
    bērzu tāss ― birch bark
    tāšu iekuri ― birch (bark) kindling
    tāšu darva ― birch (bark) tar
    tāšu taure ― birch (bark) horn

Declension
Declension of tāss (6th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) tāss tāsis
accusative (akuzatīvs) tāsi tāsis
genitive (ģenitīvs) tāss tāšu
dative (datīvs) tāsij tāsīm
instrumental (instrumentālis) tāsi tāsīm
locative (lokatīvs) tāsī tāsīs
vocative (vokatīvs) tāss tāsis

See also

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