islandiete

See also: islandietē, īslandiete, and īslandietē

Latvian

Etymology

From Islande (“Iceland”) +‎ -iete, or islandietis (“Icelander”) +‎ -e (“fem.”).

Noun

islandiete f (5th declension, masculine form: islandietis)

1. a female Icelander, an Icelandic woman, a woman from Iceland

   islandiete simboliski atklāj Eirovīzijas nedēļu ― an Icelandic woman symbolically opens the Eurovision week

Usage notes

The forms with a long ī (Īslande and derived terms, like īslandietis, īslandisks, etc.) have been recently (in 2007) proposed as correct, but the forms with a short i (Islande, islandietis, islandisks, etc.) are still more frequently used.

Declension

Declension of islandiete (5th declension)

	singular	plural
nominative	islandiete	islandietes
genitive	islandietes	islandiešu
dative	islandietei	islandietēm
accusative	islandieti	islandietes
instrumental	islandieti	islandietēm
locative	islandietē	islandietēs
vocative	islandiete	islandietes

Related terms

• Islande
• islandiešu valoda
• islandisks