sakas

See also: Sakas, šakas, and sakąs

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ḱak- (“branch, stick”) (whence also sakne (q.v.)) from Proto-Indo-European *kek- / *ḱek- / *kekʰ- / *ḱekʰ-. Cognate with Lithuanian šaka (“branch”). Semantic development: branch > parting place of two branches > the two beams around a horse's neck. Along with šak- > sak-, there is cak-/čak-, cf. čaka (“a stick with an offshoot to use as its handle”) whence čakarēt.[1] See Russian соха (soxa) for additional cognates.

Noun

sakas f (4th declension)

  1. collar (for a horse)

Declension
Declension of sakas (4th declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) — sakas
accusative (akuzatīvs) — sakas
genitive (ģenitīvs) — saku
dative (datīvs) — sakām
instrumental (instrumentālis) — sakām
locative (lokatīvs) — sakās
vocative (vokatīvs) — sakas

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