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vālodze

vālodze

See also: valodze, valodzē, and vālodzē

Latvian

Vālodze
Vālodze

Alternative forms

(dialectal forms) valodze, vālūdze

Noun

vālodze f (5th declension)

  1. oriole (various colorful birds of the family Oriolidae, especially Oriolus oriolus)
    vālodzes dzīvo jauktos vai lapu koku mežos‎ ― orioles live in mixed or deciduous forests
    vālodze ilgi vēl raudās sausās un tveicīgās dienās, līdz beidzot nāks atveldzinātājs lietus‎ ― the oriole will cry for a long time in the hot, dry days, until finally the refreshing rain comes

Declension

References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “vālodze”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Etymology

The origin of this word is unclear. Some link it to Polish wołać ‎(“to call, to cry, to shout”), and sometimes even further to Latvian valoda ‎(“language”) (q.v.). Others, given the existence of Germanic, Slavic, and Baltic reflexes, reconstruct it to Proto-Indo-European. The most likely connection is perhaps with the adjective valgs ‎(“humid”), since this bird is traditionally considered to announce the coming of rain; in this case, one might propose that vālodze comes from *vālange, a metathesized version of *vālgande; cf. the placename Valgunde. Cognates include Lithuanian volungė̃, vólungė, Proto-Slavic *vьlga (Russian иволга ‎(ívolga), Belarusian івалга ‎(ívalga), Ukrainian іволга ‎(ívolga), иволга ‎(yvólga), Bulgarian авлига ‎(avlíga), Czech vlha, Polish wilga, wywilga), Middle High German witewal, English whitwall ‎(“bird sp.”), Avestan [script needed] ‎(vārə(n)gan, “bird sp.”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [vāːluôdzɛ]

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