slāvs
See also: slavs and Slavs
Latvian
Slāvu valstis
Etymology
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]
Noun
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
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) | slāvs | slāvi |
Derived terms
- dienvidslāvs
Related terms
- slāvisks
References
- Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “slāvi”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN