nāviniece

See also: nāviniecē

Latvian[edit]

From nāve (“death”) +‎ -niece, or nāvinieks (“one condemned to death”) +‎ -e (“fem.”) (the latter with palatalization of k to c).

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nāviniece f (5th declension, masculine form: nāvinieks)

(woman) condemned to death
viņa gulēja gandrīz kā nāviniece: ārsts izrakstīja visādas zāles, likām kompreses... bet labāk nepalika ― she was sleeping almost as a woman condemned to death: the doctor prescribed all kinds of medicines, we applied compresses... but she didn't get (any) better

Declension of nāviniece (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	nāviniece	nāvinieces
accusative (akuzatīvs)	nāvinieci	nāvinieces
genitive (ģenitīvs)	nāvinieces	nāvinieču
dative (datīvs)	nāviniecei	nāviniecēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	nāvinieci	nāviniecēm
locative (lokatīvs)	nāviniecē	nāviniecēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	nāviniece	nāvinieces