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Ultimately perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bʰew- (“to swell”) (whence also bozt) with a suffix -rā- whence Proto-Baltic *burā- whence the Latvian term with the initial meaning of “that which inflates”. It is possible that the Lithuanian term is a borrowing from Latvian (Nieminen, Fraenkel). Of the same origin are the dialectal terms būra, būris (“crowd”), compare Lithuanian būrỹs (“crowd”), Sanskrit भूरि (bhū́ri, “plentiful; numerous”). 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Karulis assumes that bura must have been a Curonian word noting similarities with the Kursenieki (Latvian language enclaves around the Curonian Lagoon, former East Prussia) terms bur(-a) and burpils “crooked or hollowed out piece of wood for sprinkling sails with water”, where -pils from pilt “to bail (i.e., scoop water)”.", "forms": [ { "form": "no-table-tags", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "table-tags" ] }, { "form": "lv-decl-noun", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "inflection-template" ] }, { "form": "bura", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "nominative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "buras", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "nominative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "buras", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "genitive", "singular" ] }, { "form": "buru", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "genitive", "plural" ] }, { "form": "burai", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "burām", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "dative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "buru", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "buras", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "accusative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "buru", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "instrumental", "singular" ] }, { "form": "burām", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "instrumental", "plural" ] }, { "form": "burā", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "singular" ] }, { "form": "burās", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "locative", "plural" ] }, { "form": "bura", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "singular", "vocative" ] }, { "form": "buras", "source": "declension", "tags": [ "plural", "vocative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "lv", "2": "noun", "g": "f", "g2": "", "head": "", "sort": "" }, "expansion": "bura f", "name": "head" }, { "args": { "1": "f", "2": "4th" }, "expansion": "bura f (4th declension)", "name": "lv-noun" } ], "inflection_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "bur", "2": "a", "3": "4th", "extrawidth": "-60" }, "name": "lv-decl-noun" }, { "args": { "1": "bur", "2": "a", "4": "", "5": "", "6": "", "7": "", "8": "", "drop-v": "", "keep-s": "", "x": "-60" }, "name": "lv-decl-noun-4" }, { "args": { "1": "bura", "10": "burām", "11": "burā", "12": "burās", "13": "bura", "14": "buras", "16": "", "2": "buras", "3": "buru", "4": "buras", "5": "buras", "6": "buru", "7": "burai", "8": "burām", "9": "buru", "type": "4th declension", "x": "-60" }, "name": "lv-decl-noun-table" } ], "lang": "Latvian", "lang_code": "lv", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "categories": [ { "kind": "other", "name": "Latvian entries with incorrect language header", "parents": [ "Entries with incorrect language header", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Latvian etymologies from LEV", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with 21 entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Pages with entries", "parents": [], "source": "w" }, { "kind": "other", "name": "Sanskrit terms with non-redundant manual transliterations", "parents": [ "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations", "Entry maintenance" ], "source": "w" } ], "glosses": [ "sail" ], "id": "en-bura-lv-noun-0DUKYGTe", "links": [ [ "sail", "sail" ] ], "tags": [ "declension-4", "feminine" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "other": "[bura]" } ], "word": "bura" }
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