krūtis

Latvian

From Proto-Indo-European *krū̆t- (“protuberance, breast, belly”), probably related to *krew- (“curve”), *(s)ker- (“to turn”), *(s)krew-. Possibly related to Old Irish crott (“lute”), Proto-Germanic *hraukaz (“pile, stack”), but these connections are uncertain.^[1]

krūtis f (6th declension)

Declension of krūtis (6th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	—	krūtis
accusative (akuzatīvs)	—	krūtis
genitive (ģenitīvs)	—	krūšu
dative (datīvs)	—	krūtīm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	—	krūtīm
locative (lokatīvs)	—	krūtīs
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	krūtis

krūtis

^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1642”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1642

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krūtis

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According to Derksen, from the zero-grade of Lithuanian kráuti (“to pile”). Cognate with Latvian krūts (“hill, heap, breast”).^[1]

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krūtìs f (plural krū̃tys) stress pattern 4

Declension of krūtìs

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “krūtis”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 261