See dusa in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"etymology_text": "From the same stem as dusēt, made into a feminine fourth declension noun (ending -a).",
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"english": "with the cock's song (= at cockcrow) I woke up from sleep",
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"english": "I felt weary and went directly to the little barn to sleep",
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"(poetic) sleep (the act of sleeping)"
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"english": "our generation knew no rest",
"text": "mūsu paaudze dusas nezināja",
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},
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37,
41
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],
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"english": "large butterflies, as if looking for rest, fly through grass stalks and sedge leaves",
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}
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"(poetic) rest, piece"
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"english": "eternal sleep (= death)",
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46,
51
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14
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"english": "(one) cannot wake up (someone) from the final sleep (= death)",
"text": "no beigu dusas nevar modināt!",
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],
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"Latvian lemmas",
"Latvian nouns",
"Pages with 5 entries",
"Pages with entries"
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51
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}
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