Dictionaries › Latvian

tēvs

Pronunciation: [ˈtǣːws]

“tēvs” is a Latvian word. Its 8 meanings in English:

noun

  1. father (a man who has a child or children)
  2. God the Father (God seen as the creator of the universe)
  3. Father (used to address or to speak about members of the Catholic or Orthodox clergy: priests, monks, etc.)
  4. father; a respectful form of address for an older man, especially the leader of a household, farm, etc.
  5. fathers, ancestors
  6. father, founder, creator
  7. male (usually tēviņš)
  8. from which there is growth, which generates new growth

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *tewas ("father"), from Proto-Indo-European *te- (“father”), a stem found in reduplicated form in tẽtis (“father”) (q.v.). The epenthetic v arose to break the e-a sequence. Cognates include Lithuanian tė́vas, Old Prussian tāws, towis (“father”), thewis (“father's brother”).

Keep exploring: in the interactive dictionary every word of a definition is a link. Open “tēvs” there

More Latvian words

About this dictionary

The Latvian dictionary on Glottosphere has 15,287 entries with a page. Browse the Latvian dictionary.

Definitions are from Wiktionary, extracted by Kaikki.org, and are available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.