slidus

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Latvian

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Adjective

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slidus

  1. (dialectal) accusative plural masculine of slids

Lithuanian

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Etymology

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Adjectival formation from Proto-Indo-European *sleydʰ- (to slip, slide, be slippery). Cognate with Latvian slids (slippery); see also slýsti (to slip, slide, glide).[1][2]

Pronunciation

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Adjective

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slidùs m (feminine slidì) stress pattern 4

  1. slippery

Declension

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References

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  1. ^ Smoczyński, Wojciech (2007) “slidùs”, in Słownik etymologiczny je̜zyka litewskiego[1] (in Polish), Vilnius: Uniwersytet Wileński, page 572
  2. ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “slidus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 412