Lūž

See also: Appendix:Variations of "luz"

Livonian

Etymology

Kersti Boiko suggests the Latvian name Lūžņa as the source of the Livonian name. Compare dialectal lūžņa (“a place where trees have been felled by wind”) from the verb lūzt (“to break”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈluːˀʒ/, [ˈluːˀʒ̥]

Proper noun

Lū’ž

  1. Lūžņa (a village in Latvia)
    • Tiit-Rein Viitso; Valts Ernštreits (2012–2013), “Lūž”, in Līvõkīel-ēstikīel-lețkīel sõnārōntõz [Livonian-Estonian-Latvian Dictionary]‎[1] (in Estonian and Latvian), Tartu, Rīga: Tartu Ülikool, Latviešu valodas aģentūra
      Lūž – Lūž – Lūžņa
      Lūžņa – Lūžņa – Lūžņa

Declension

Declension of Lūž (145)
singular (ikšlu’g) plural (pǟgiņlu’g)
nominative (nominatīv) Lūž —
genitive (genitīv) Lūž —
partitive (partitīv) Lūžõ —
dative (datīv) Lūžõn —
instrumental (instrumentāl) Lūžõks —
illative (illatīv) Lūžõ —
inessive (inesīv) Lūžõs —
elative (elatīv) Lūžõst —

References

  1. ^ Kersti Boiko, Ziemeļkurzemes piekrastes lībiešu ciemu vietvārdi in Kersti Boiko's Lībieši – rakstu krājums, page 217
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