ods

See also: ODS, öds, and OD's

English

Noun

ods

  1. plural of od

Interjection

ods

  1. (obsolete, used in oaths etc.) God's
    Ods bodikin.
    Ods pity.

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

ods c

  1. genitive singular indefinite of od

Latvian
Ods

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *uodas, from Proto-Indo-European *ōd-, *ēd- (“to eat, to bite”), whence also ēst (“to eat”). Cognates include Lithuanian úodas. The original meaning was thus “eater, biter.”[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [uôts]

Noun

ods m (1st declension)

  1. gnat, mosquito (small insects (order: Diptera), especially mosquitos (family: Culicidae) that bite and suck blood)
    oda kodums ― mosquito bite
    malārijas odi ― malaria mosquitos
    pa logu ielido odi un raudulīgi sīc, pēc asinīm izslāpuši ― mosquitos flew at the window and buzzed tearfully, thirsty for blood

Declension
Declension of ods (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) ods odi
accusative (akuzatīvs) odu odus
genitive (ģenitīvs) oda odu
dative (datīvs) odam odiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) odu odiem
locative (lokatīvs) odā odos
vocative (vokatīvs) ods odi

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also

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