vingrs

Latvian

From an earlier verb *vingt (“to bend”) (the r follows the pattern of stingt “to harden, to stiffen,” stingrs “firm, strong, strict”), from Proto-Baltic *wing-, from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to bend, to incline”) with an extra g. Cognates include Lithuanian vingrùs (“tortuous, sinuous; agile, able, skillful”), Old Prussian wingriskan (“cunning, deceit(ful)”) (accusative).^[1]

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vingrs (definite vingrais, comparative vingrāks, superlative visvingrākais, adverb vingri)

(of people, their bodies) firm, strong, fit, agile, flexible (physically well developed)
vingrs augums ― firm body

parādījās arī citi viesi... Šarlene griezās ap tiem kā atspole, atkal atsperīga un vingra ― the other guests appeared... Šarlene turned around them like a shuttle, springy and agile

Anna bija skaista sieva, viņa izskatījās tik jauna,... bija vingra, cēla un lokana ― Anna was a beautiful woman, she looked so young,... (she) was fit, sublime and flexible

mani locekļi bija vingri un viegli, un miesa it kā bez smaguma ― my limbs were firm and light, and the flesh (= body) (was) as if almost weightless
(of movement) agile, strong
vingra gaita ― agile gait

te aizmugurē ieskanas steidzīgi, vingri soļi, ar kādiem mēdz iet pašapzinīgi, spara pilni cilvēki ― here, behind (us), agile, quick steps resonate, the kind that self-confident, energetic people walk with

indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of vingrs

	masculine (vīriešu dzimte)		feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	vingrs	vingri	vingra	vingras
accusative (akuzatīvs)	vingru	vingrus	vingru	vingras
genitive (ģenitīvs)	vingra	vingru	vingras	vingru
dative (datīvs)	vingram	vingriem	vingrai	vingrām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	vingru	vingriem	vingru	vingrām
locative (lokatīvs)	vingrā	vingros	vingrā	vingrās
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	—	—	—

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