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krāce

krāce

See also: krācē

Latvian

Krāces

Noun

krāce f (5th declension)

  1. rapids (section of a river where the water flows rapidly down, usually over or around rocks)
    mutuļainas krāces‎ ― rapids with eddies, whirlpools
    šalc krāces‎ ― the rapids rustle
    krāču ūdens‎ ― rapids water
    laiva tuvojās krācēm‎ ― the boat is approaching the rapids
    upe gāžas lejup no kalniem, veidojot krāces un ūdenskritumus‎ ― the river runs down from the mountains, forming rapids and waterfalls

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References

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

Etymology

Related to the Latvian verb krākt ‎(“to roar”). The most likely theory is that the word krāce was influenced by krākt (in, e.g., lengthening the ā), but that it originally was *krace, a form of dialectal kracis ‎(“pole with crossbar (for drying grain)”), from Proto-Indo-European *krek-, *krok- ‎(“to stand out, to stick out, to straighten oneself”), which would originally suggest the specific configuration of rapids in the Daugava river.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [kɾāːtsɛ]

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