slāvs

See also: slavs and Slavs

Latvian

slāvi on Latvian Wikipedia

A 19th-century borrowing from German Slawen, itself a borrowing from Slavic languages, ultimately either from Old Church Slavonic слово (slovo, “word”) (cf. Russian сло́во (slóvo)), or from an unattested verb *sluti (“to speak (understandably)”) (present tense form *slovǫ; cf. Russian слыть (slytʹ, “to be well known, to be praised”)).^[1]

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slāvs m (1st declension, feminine form: slāviete)

(male) Slav, a man belonging to one of the Slavic peoples
Jans Huss, citētās frāzes autors, bija slāvs ― Jan Hus, the author of the quoted sentences, was a Slav

slāvi ir etnolingvistika, indoeiropiešiem piederoša tautu grupa ― the Slavs are an ethnologuistic group of people belonging to the Indo-Europeans
(genitive plural) Slavic, pertaining to Slavic languages, Slavic peoples or their lands
slāvu valstis ― Slavic countries

slāvu valodas ― Slavic languages

slāvu burti ― Slavic letters, alphabet

slāvu tautas ― Slavic peoples, nations

slāvu mitoloģija ― Slavic mythology

Declension of slāvs (1st declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	slāvs	slāvi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	slāvu	slāvus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	slāva	slāvu
dative (datīvs)	slāvam	slāviem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	slāvu	slāviem
locative (lokatīvs)	slāvā	slāvos
vocative (vokatīvs)	slāv	slāvi

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “slāvi”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca‎^[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN