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See also: griva and grīvā

Grīva

grīva f (4th declension)

estuary, mouth (the place at which a river reaches the sea)

padziļināt upes grīvu‎ ― to deepen the river's estuary

pie Daugavas grīvas bija pārāk daudz zvejnieku‎ ― at the mouth of the Daugava there were too many fishermen

Declension of grīva (4th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	grīva	grīvas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	grīvu	grīvas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	grīvas	grīvu
dative (datīvs)	grīvai	grīvām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	grīvu	grīvām
locative (lokatīvs)	grīvā	grīvās
vocative (vokatīvs)	grīva	grīvas

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

From Proto-Baltic *grīwā, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷrīwā (< *gʷriHweh₂) “neck”, “nape,” from the stem *gʷer- “throat,” “to swallow”, whence also Latvian dzert “to drink”). Cognates include Proto-Slavic *griva ‎(“mane”) (Russian грива ‎(gríva, “mane”) (dialectal also “narrow bay,” “steep river bank”), Belarusian грыва ‎(hryva, “mane”) (dialectal also “dry place in a swamp”), Ukrainian грива ‎(hryva, “mane”), Czech hříva, Polish grzywa), Sanskrit ग्रीवा ‎(grīvā́, “neck”).^[1]