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sudrabs

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Latvian

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From a late Proto-Indo-European root common to Balto-Slavic and Germanic for “silver”, not attested in other branches of Indo-European, likely borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate.[1]

Cognates include Lithuanian sidãbras, dialectal sudãbras, archaic sidrabas (compare Latvian dialectal forms sudabrs, sidrabs), Old Prussian siraplis (accusative form sirablan), Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro) (Russian серебро́ (serebró)), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍂 (silubr), German Silber, English silver.[2]

Pronunciation

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Noun

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Chemical element
Ag
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sudrabs m (1st declension)

  1. silver (precious metal; chemical element, with atomic number 47.)
    tīrradņa sudrabsvirgin silver
    sudraba rūdasilver ore
    sudraba sakausējumisilver alloys
    sudraba nitrāts, hlorīdssilver nitrate, chloride
    sudraba karotesilver spoon
    sudraba medaļasilver medal
    sudraba kāzassilver wedding (i.e., 20th anniversary)
  2. (adjectival genitive; speaking of sounds) pure, clear, clean
    viņas balsij sudraba skaņaher voice has a silver sound

Declension

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Declension of sudrabs (1st declension)
singular plural
nominative sudrabs
genitive sudraba
dative sudrabam
accusative sudrabu
instrumental sudrabu
locative sudrabā
vocative sudrab

Derived terms

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References

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  1. ^ Benveniste, É. (2016). Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society. United Kingdom: HAU Books, p. 151
  2. ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “sudrabs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary]‎[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN