slāvs
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Latvian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
A 19th-century borrowing from German Slawen, itself a borrowing from Slavic languages, ultimately either from Old Church Slavonic слово (slovo, “word”) (cf. Russian сло́во (slóvo)), or from an unattested verb *sluti (“to speak (understandably)”) (present tense form *slovǫ; cf. Russian слыть (slytʹ, “to be well known, to be praised”)).[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
slāvs m (1st declension, feminine form: slāviete)
- (male) Slav, a man belonging to one of the Slavic peoples
- Jans Huss, citētās frāzes autors, bija slāvs ― Jan Hus, the author of the quoted sentences, was a Slav
- slāvi ir etnolingvistika, indoeiropiešiem piederoša tautu grupa ― the Slavs are an ethnologuistic group of people belonging to the Indo-Europeans
- (genitive plural) Slavic, pertaining to Slavic languages, Slavic peoples or their lands
- slāvu valstis ― Slavic countries
- slāvu valodas ― Slavic languages
- slāvu burti ― Slavic letters, alphabet
- slāvu tautas ― Slavic peoples, nations
- slāvu mitoloģija ― Slavic mythology
Declension[edit]
Declension of slāvs (1st declension)
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References[edit]
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “slāvi”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN