kajaks

1. translativesingular ofkaja

Apparently borrowed fromEstoniankajakas(“seagull”), dialectalkajak, but, givenLatviankaija(“seagull”), and sinceak is a formative element often found in Indo-European animal names,Latviankajaks may have been the original word andEstoniankajakas the borrowing.^[1]

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kajaks m (1st declension)

1. common gull, also known asmew gull(Larus canus).

   kajaku brēcieni ―common gull cries, squawks

   mazāk pie mums Latvijā ligzdokajaks, un tam līdzīgā, krietni prāvākā sudrabkaija ―less (often) thecommon gull nests by us in Latvia, and also the similar, (but) much larger, silver gull

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kajaks

1. indefinitegenitivesingular ofkajak