nīlzirgs
Latvian
noun
Definitions
- hippopotamus genus Hippopotamus
Etymology
Compound from Latvian Nīla (Nile river) + Latvian zirgs (horse).
Origin
Latvian
zirgs
Gloss
horse
Concept
Semantic Field
Animals
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
馬
Emoji
🎠 🏇 🐴 🦓
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- hippopotamus English
- hippopotamus Latin
- Nil German
- Nilpferd German
- Pferd German
- nijlpaard Dutch, Flemish
- hippopotame French
- ποτᾰμός Ancient Greek
- ἱπποπόταμος Ancient Greek
- ῐ̔́ππος Ancient Greek
- *h₁eḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- flodhest Norwegian Bokmål
- flodhest Norwegian Nynorsk
- Nīla Latvian
- zirdziņš Latvian
- zirgs Latvian
- היפופוטם Hebrew (modern)
- *íkkʷos Proto-Hellenic
- *źirˀgás bat-pro