uts

Noun

 * 1) hole

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1) spring water source

Etymology
Usually derived from, , , from the stem (whence also 🇨🇬 , q.v.) with a suffix -t.

J. Endzelīns, connecting this word to 🇨🇬, and noting the ancient link between the notions of “forging” and “pricking, piercing” (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), suggested that the original meaning of was “that which pierces; stitch.”

Another opinion is that (via, with a suffix -t) derives from Proto-Indo-European  (whence also 🇨🇬, q.v.), so that its original meaning would have been “that which is felt, which irritates”.

A third suggestion is that comes from Proto-Indo-European,  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), a word which many daughter languages altered or abandoned, perhaps because of linguistic taboos; in the Baltic case, only the middle u would have been kept, with an extra suffix -t. Cognates include 🇨🇬, dialectal,.

Noun

 * 1) louse, lice many species of small insect parasites, all in the order Psocodea

Etymology
From.

Noun

 * 1) spring (of water)

Inflection
a-decl (Obl, pl): -a