ods

See also: ODS, öds, and OD's

English

Noun

ods

  1. plural of od

Interjection

ods

  1. (obsolete, used in oaths etc.) God's
    Ods bodikin.
    Ods pity.

Anagrams

Danish

Noun

ods c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of od

Latvian
Ods

Etymology

From Proto-Baltic *uodas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (“to eat, to bite”). Cognates include Lithuanian úodas. The original meaning was thus “eater, biter.”[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): [uɔts]

Noun

ods m (1st declension)

  1. gnat, mosquito (small insects (order: Diptera), especially mosquitos (family: Culicidae) that bite and suck blood)
    oda kodums ― mosquito bite
    malārijas odi ― malaria mosquitos
    pa logu ielido odi un raudulīgi sīc, pēc asinīm izslāpuši ― mosquitos flew at the window and buzzed tearfully, thirsty for blood

Declension
Declension of ods (1st declension)
singular (vienskaitlis) plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs) ods odi
accusative (akuzatīvs) odu odus
genitive (ģenitīvs) oda odu
dative (datīvs) odam odiem
instrumental (instrumentālis) odu odiem
locative (lokatīvs) odā odos
vocative (vokatīvs) od odi

Synonyms

Derived terms

See also

References
  1. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ods”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Welsh

Noun

ods f (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of ots

Mutation
Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
ods unchanged unchanged hods
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.
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