zaldi

Basque

Etymology

1226; from *zaldün, from Proto-Basque *zaldün (“packhorse”, literally “load-bearing”); recorded in Ibero-Latin as celdo, thieldones (Pliny, Natural History, 8:166).[1]

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Noun

zaldi

  1. horse

Declension
(animate noun) declension of zaldi
indefinite singular plural
absolutivezaldizaldiazaldiak
ergativezaldikzaldiakzaldiek
dativezaldirizaldiarizaldiei
genitivezaldirenzaldiarenzaldien
comitativezaldirekinzaldiarekinzaldiekin
causativezaldirengatikzaldiarengatikzaldiengatik
benefactivezaldirentzatzaldiarentzatzaldientzat
instrumentalzaldizzaldiazzaldiez
inessivezaldirenganzaldiarenganzaldiengan
allativezaldirenganazaldiarenganazaldiengana
terminativezaldirenganainozaldiarenganainozaldienganaino
directivezaldirenganantzzaldiarenganantzzaldienganantz
destinativezaldirenganakozaldiarenganakozaldienganako
ablativezaldirengandikzaldiarengandikzaldiengandik
partitivezaldirik
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prolativezalditzat
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References
  1. Luis Michelena, Fonética histórica vasca, 2nd edn. (San Sebastián: Diputación Foral de Guipúzcoa, 1977), 356n.
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