āre

See also: Appendix:Variations of "are"

Latvian

Etymology 1

Etymologically a variant of ārs (“outside, exterior”).^[1]

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [âːɾɛ]

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Noun

āre f (5th declension)

1. (poetic) open space, open; cultivated land, fields

   traktoru rūkoņa kolhoza ārēs jau bija apklususi ― the tractors' noise in the cultivated land of the kolkhoz had already silenced

   kalni dun un ielejas / meži šalc sev pāri / vēsts šī dziesmā ielejas / plūst pār dzimto āri ― the mountains and valleys rumble / the forests rustle / the message in this song (over) the valleys / flows, over (our) native open space

   marts liegu dūmaku pār birzīm klāj, / ar smaržām piepilda ik āri ― (the month of) March covered the groves (with) a gentle haze, / it filled each cultivated field with a (pleasant) scent

Declension

Declension of āre (5th declension)

	singular	plural
nominative	āre	āres
genitive	āres	āru
dative	ārei	ārēm
accusative	āri	āres
instrumental	āri	ārēm
locative	ārē	ārēs
vocative	āre	āres

Synonyms

• ārs
• lauks

Etymology 2

Unclear.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [āːɾɛ]

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Interjection

āre

1. look!; see? (used to draw the listener's attention to something, be it a physical object or an idea, a thought)

   āre, tur jau viņš nāk! ― look! there he comes!

   āre, kur ir! ― look where (he, she, it) is! look, there (he, she, it) is!

   āre, nebija vis tā, kā tu teici! ― see? it wasn't all as you said (it would be)!

   pagāja vēl kādi gadi, un āre - Roplains vairs neslīdēja uz leju, bet sāka celties ― a few more years passed, and now look: Roplains was not sliding down anymore, he began to go up

Synonyms

• lūk
• re

References

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

Tocharian A

Etymology

From Proto-Tocharian [Term?], from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”). Compare Tocharian B āre.

Noun

āre

1. plough

Tocharian B

Etymology 1

From Proto-Tocharian, from a derivative of Proto-Indo-European *h₂erh₃- (“to plough”). Compare Tocharian A āre.

Noun

āre ?

1. plough

Etymology 2

A form of ār- (“to cease, end”).

Noun

āre ?

1. end

Etymology 3

Probably from Proto-Indo-European *h₁er-, making it cognate with English earth. Not related to *h₂erh₃-.

Noun

āre ?

1. dust, loose earth

Further reading

• Adams, Douglas Q. (2013) “āre”, in A Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European; 10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN