sliņķis

Latvian

A nominal version of adjective slinks (“lazy”) (q.v.), made into an i-stem (with consequent palatalization of the nk cluster). Cognates include Lithuanian slìnkis, slìnka.^[1]

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sliņķis m (2nd declension, feminine form: sliņķe)

lazy man, animal
sliņķus suns ― lazy dog

tēvs necieš sliņķus, jo allaž savus dēlus mācījis: “darbs ir cilvēka lielākais gods” ― father couldn't stand lazy people, as he always taught his sons: “work is man's greatest honor”
sloth (several species of arboreal South American mammal from the families Bradypodidae and Megalonychidae)
parastais (trīspirkstu) sliņķis ― simple (three-fingered) sloth (Bradypus variegatus, B. tridactylus, B. torquatus)

Declension of sliņķis (2nd declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	sliņķis	sliņķi
accusative (akuzatīvs)	sliņķi	sliņķus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	sliņķa	sliņķu
dative (datīvs)	sliņķim	sliņķiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	sliņķi	sliņķiem
locative (lokatīvs)	sliņķī	sliņķos
vocative (vokatīvs)	sliņķi	sliņķi

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