krēsls

Etymology
Some researchers consider this word borrowed from, where a possible 🇨🇬 could be related to , the rectangular form of which is reminiscent of chairs. Other researchers, pointing out that this would not explain the number of cognate formations in 🇨🇬 (e.g., dialectal Latvian, , dialectal 🇨🇬, , ), suggest that the 🇨🇬 cognates are actually borrowings from Baltic. The latter hypothesis is supported by their distribution: there are no reflexes in Southern Slavic languages (the 🇨🇬 cognate is a later borrowing). If so, would come (via  with an extra l) from the same stem as the verb, older meaning “to braid, to weave” (for a link between the notions of “shaking” and “weaving,” see 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬): , , from. The original meaning would then have been “woven object” (folk songs suggest that earlier chairs were indeed made by weaving wickers). Cognates include 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) chair piece of furniture for sitting, consisting of a backrest and a single seat mounted on several, usually four, feet
 * 2)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss
 * 1)  a structure of beams that supports the rafters and the roof of a house; roof truss

Usage notes
Latviešu etimoloģijas vārdnīca indicates this term as having a level intonation. In practice, however, it is very commonly pronounced with a broken tone, this also allows to differentiate it from. Perhaps the switch in tone is by contamination with the Russian term (although the Russian language doesn't have contrastive tones the typical way vowels are realized in Russian can be perceived by Latvian speakers as a universal broken tone.)