slidens
Latvian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (dialectal form) slids
Etymology
[edit]From the same stem as Latvian slīdēt (“to slide”) and slaids (“slender, slim”): Proto-Baltic *slid + -ens, from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (“slippery, to slide”). A dialectal variant slids (“slippery”), without the suffix, also exists (compare Lithuanian slidùs (“slippery”)).[1]
Adjective
[edit]slidens (definite slidenais, comparative slidenāks, superlative visslidenākais, adverb slideni)
- slippery, slick (with a surface that has little attrition)
- slidens ceļš ― slippery path, road
- slidena virsma ― slippery surface
- slidens parkets ― slippery flooring
- slidenas kurpju zoles ― slippery shoe soles
- slidenas kāpnes ― slippery stairs
- (figuratively) slippery, slick (associated with risk, with difficulty)
- slidens pasākums ― a slippery, difficult enterprise, project
- diezgan slidena dzejas problēma ― the rather slippery problem of poetry
Declension
[edit]| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||
| nominative | slidens | slideni | slidena | slidenas | |
| genitive | slidena | slidenu | slidenas | slidenu | |
| dative | slidenam | slideniem | slidenai | slidenām | |
| accusative | slidenu | slidenus | slidenu | slidenas | |
| instrumental | slidenu | slideniem | slidenu | slidenām | |
| locative | slidenā | slidenos | slidenā | slidenās | |
| vocative | — | — | — | — | |
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||
| nominative | slidenais | slidenie | slidenā | slidenās | |
| genitive | slidenā | slideno | slidenās | slideno | |
| dative | slidenajam | slidenajiem | slidenajai | slidenajām | |
| accusative | slideno | slidenos | slideno | slidenās | |
| instrumental | slideno | slidenajiem | slideno | slidenajām | |
| locative | slidenajā | slidenajos | slidenajā | slidenajās | |
| vocative | slideno, slidenais | slidenie | slideno, slidenā | slidenās | |
Derived terms
[edit]Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “slīdēt”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary][1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN