glīts
Appearance
Latvian
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- (dialectal form) glīšs
Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Baltic *glitus, *glītus, from Proto-Indo-European *glīt-, the zero grade of *gley- (“to stick; to spread, to smear”) with an extra -t. From a parallel Baltic yo-stem from *glītyas came Latvian dialectal glīšs. The meaning changed from “slippery” to “smooth; tight-fitting” (a meaning still attested in folk songs), to “pleasant, pretty.” Cognates include Lithuanian glitùs, dialectal glytùs (“slimy, sticky; slick, slippery”), Ancient Greek γλοιός (gloiós, “sticky, slippery”), Late Latin glus (“glue”), accusative glutem (whence English glue), from earlier Latin glūten.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]glīts (definite glītais, comparative glītāks, superlative visglītākais, adverb glīti)
- pretty, handsome, neat, good-looking (corresponding to aesthetic ideals; well, skillfully, carefully made)
- glīta meitene, sievete, seja ― pretty girl, woman, face
- glīts dzīvoklis, kostīms ― pretty, neat apartment, costume
- glīta māja ― pretty, neat house
- glītas mēbeles ― pretty, neat furniture
- glīts darbs, rokraksts, adījums ― neat work, handwriting, knit
Declension
[edit]indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of glīts
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
nominative (nominatīvs) | glīts | glīti | glīta | glītas | |||||
accusative (akuzatīvs) | glītu | glītus | glītu | glītas | |||||
genitive (ģenitīvs) | glīta | glītu | glītas | glītu | |||||
dative (datīvs) | glītam | glītiem | glītai | glītām | |||||
instrumental (instrumentālis) | glītu | glītiem | glītu | glītām | |||||
locative (lokatīvs) | glītā | glītos | glītā | glītās | |||||
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Synonyms
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[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “glīts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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- Latvian terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
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