tautiete

See also: tautietē

Latvian

From tauta (“people, nation”) +‎ -iete, or tautietis (“countryman”) +‎ -e (“[fem.]”).

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tautiete f (5th declension, masculine form: tautietis)

a (female) compatriot, a countrywoman (a woman with the same ethnicity or nationality as the speaker)
afgānu sievietes protestē pret tautietes publisku nolinčošanu ― Afghan women protest against the public lynching of their countrywomen
(in folk texts) a young woman from another region or from another family or group of families