tukls

Latvian

Etymology

Derived from tukt (“to swell, to become thick, fat”), a dialectal variant of tūkt (“to swell”) (q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian tuklùs (“quickly fattened; fat, stout; overweight”).[1]

Pronunciation

Adjective

tukls (tuklais comparative, tuklāks superlative, vistuklākais adverb, tukli)

  1. (of people, animals, body parts) fat, chubby, plump, corpulent (having a relatively thick layer of fat)
    tukls cilvēks ― fat, corpulent person
    tukli vaigi, pirksti ― fat cheecks, fingers
    tukls sivēns ― fat piglet
    pa laukiem skraidīja tuklās lauku peles ― through the fields ran fat field mice

Declension
indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of tukls
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
singular
(vienskaitlis)		 plural
(daudzskaitlis)		 singular
(vienskaitlis)		 plural
(daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) tukls tukli tukla tuklas
accusative (akuzatīvs) tuklu tuklus tuklu tuklas
genitive (ģenitīvs) tukla tuklu tuklas tuklu
dative (datīvs) tuklam tukliem tuklai tuklām
instrumental (instrumentālis) tuklu tukliem tuklu tuklām
locative (lokatīvs) tuklā tuklos tuklā tuklās
vocative (vokatīvs) — — — —

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