"sermulis" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [Latvian]

IPA: [sæ̂ɾmulis]
Etymology: From *serm- + -ulis, from Proto-Baltic *šerm-, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“gray color”) with an extra -m (whence also Latvian sirms (“gray”), q.v.). Cognates include Lithuanian šarmuõ, šermuõ, šermuonė̃lis, Old High German harmo, German Hermelin. Etymology templates: {{suffix|lv||ulis}} + -ulis, {{cog|bat-pro|*šerm-}} Proto-Baltic *šerm-, {{cog|ine-pro|*ḱer-||gray color}} Proto-Indo-European *ḱer- (“gray color”), {{cog|lv|sirms||gray}} Latvian sirms (“gray”), {{cog|lt|šarmuõ}} Lithuanian šarmuõ, {{cog|goh|harmo}} Old High German harmo, {{cog|de|Hermelin}} German Hermelin Head templates: {{head|lv|noun|g=m|g2=|head=|sort=}} sermulis m, {{lv-noun|m|2nd}} sermulis m (2nd declension) Inflection templates: {{lv-decl-noun|sermu|is|2nd||l|ļ|extrawidth=-60}}, {{lv-decl-noun-2|sermu|is|4=|5=l|6=ļ|7=|8=|drop-v=|keep-s=|x=-60}}, {{lv-decl-noun-table|sermulis|sermuļi|sermuli|sermuļus|sermuļa|sermuļu|sermulim|sermuļiem|sermuli|sermuļiem|sermulī|sermuļos|sermuli|sermuļi|type=2nd declension|x=-60}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], sermulis [nominative, singular], sermuļi [nominative, plural], sermuļa [genitive, singular], sermuļu [genitive, plural], sermulim [dative, singular], sermuļiem [dative, plural], sermuli [accusative, singular], sermuļus [accusative, plural], sermuli [instrumental, singular], sermuļiem [instrumental, plural], sermulī [locative, singular], sermuļos [locative, plural], sermuli [singular, vocative], sermuļi [plural, vocative], sermuls [alternative]
  1. stoat, ermine (a mustelid species of the weasel family, Mustela erminea, whose fur becomes completely white in winter) Wikipedia link: lv:sermulis Tags: declension-2, masculine Derived forms: sermuļāda, sermuļa āda

Inflected forms

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          "english": "the stoat hunts rats, water rats, mice, little birds, attacking even partridges and hares",
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}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable All languages combined dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-05-21 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-05-01 using wiktextract (89ebc88 and e74c913). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.