celms

See also: Celms

Latvian[edit]

From Proto-Indo-European *kelH-m- (“stump”), a depalatalization of *ḱélh₂-m(on)-; cognate with Lithuanian kélmas (“stub, shrub, beehive”), Proto-Germanic *helmô (“handle; helm, tiller”).^[1]

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celms m (1st declension)

Declension of celms (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	celms	celmi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	celmu	celmus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	celma	celmu
dative (datīvs)	celmam	celmiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	celmu	celmiem
locative (lokatīvs)	celmā	celmos
vocative (vokatīvs)	celm	celmi

^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “kelmas”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 235-6