ods

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See also: ODS, öds, and OD's

English[edit]

Noun[edit]

ods

  1. plural of od

Interjection[edit]

ods

  1. (obsolete, used in oaths etc.) God's
    Ods bodikin.
    Ods pity.

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Danish[edit]

Noun[edit]

ods c

  1. indefinite genitive singular of od

Latvian[edit]

 ods on Latvian Wikipedia
Ods

Etymology[edit]

From Proto-Baltic *uodas, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed- (to eat, to bite). Cognates include Lithuanian úodas. The original meaning was thus “eater, biter.”[1]

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Noun[edit]

ods m (1st declension)

  1. gnat, mosquito (small insects (order: Diptera), especially mosquitos (family: Culicidae) that bite and suck blood)
    oda kodumsmosquito bite
    malārijas odimalaria mosquitos
    pa logu ielido odi un raudulīgi sīc, pēc asinīm izslāpušimosquitos flew at the window and buzzed tearfully, thirsty for blood

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “ods”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

Welsh[edit]

Noun[edit]

ods f (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of ots

Mutation[edit]

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal h-prothesis
ods unchanged unchanged hods
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.