kajaks

See also: Kajaks

Latvian

Kajaks

Etymology

Apparently borrowed from Estonian kajakas (seagull), dialectal kajak, but, given Latvian kaija (seagull), and since ak is a formative element often found in Indo-European animal names, Latvian kajaks may have been the original word and Estonian kajakas the borrowing.[1]

Pronunciation

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Noun

kajaks m (1st declension)

  1. common gull, also known as mew gull (Larus canus).
    kajaku brēcienicommon gull cries, squawks
    mazāk pie mums Latvijā ligzdo kajaks, un tam līdzīgā, krietni prāvākā sudrabkaijaless (often) the common gull nests by us in Latvia, and also the similar, (but) much larger, silver gull

Declension

References

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

Swedish

Noun

kajaks

  1. indefinite genitive singular of kajak
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