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Nams (1)

Kultūras nams (4)

nams m (1st declension)

house, building (esp. big, multi-storey, in the city)

dzīvojamais nams‎ ― residential house

daudzstāvu nams‎ ― multi-storey house

vairākdzīvokļu nams‎ ― many-apartment house, building

īres nams‎ ― rent house (= apartment building, i.e., a building with apartments to rent)
house, location (of a celebration)

kāzu nams‎ ― wedding house (= celebration)

nama māte, namamāte‎ ― hostess (of a party, celebration)
a famous or rich family
Rotšildu nams‎ ― the house (= family) of Rothschild
fairly large building, or part of a building, which usually has administrative, cultural, public or commercial functions

zinātnes un tehnikas nams‎ ― House of Science and Technology

kultūras nams‎ ― House of Culture

sporta nams‎ ― sports club

mēbeļu nams‎ ― furniture house

bērnu nams, bērnunams‎ ― children's home (= orphanage)

Baltais nams‎ ― the White House

Declension of nams (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	nams	nami
accusative (akuzatīvs)	namu	namus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	nama	namu
dative (datīvs)	namam	namiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	namu	namiem
locative (lokatīvs)	namā	namos
vocative (vokatīvs)	nam	nami

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

nams

From Proto-Baltic *namas, from *damas, from Proto-Indo-European *dṓm ‎(“house”). The irregular d > n change in Baltic is attributed either to dissimilation (in expressions like darīt namu “to make a house”), or to influence from Iranic languages (compare Avestan [script needed] ‎(nmāna, “quarters, house”) alongside [script needed] ‎(dəmāna), suggesting the existence of an Iranian form *nam-). Another suggestion was that Proto-Baltic *nam- could come from *nm̥- < *dm̥, the zero grade form of Proto-Indo-European *dṓm. Yet another possiblity is the influence of the stem of words like Ancient Greek νέμω ‎(némō, “to tend, to distribute, to take to pasture”), νομός ‎(nomós, “pasture; division, distribution; residence, dwelling”). Cognates include Lithuanian nãmas, Old Church Slavonic домъ ‎(domŭ), Russian, Belarusian, Bulgarian дом ‎(dom), Ukrainian дім ‎(dim), Czech dům (genitive domu), Polish dom, Sanskrit दमः ‎(dámaḥ), Old Armenian տուն ‎(tun), Ancient Greek δόμος ‎(dómos), Latin domus.^[1]