islandiete
Latvian
editEtymology
editFromIslande(“Iceland”) +-iete, orislandietis(“Icelander”) +-e(“fem.”).
Noun
editislandiete f (5th declension,masculine form:islandietis)
- a femaleIcelander, anIcelandic woman, awoman fromIceland
- islandiete simboliski atklāj Eirovīzijas nedēļu ―anIcelandic woman symbolically opens the Eurovision week
Usage notes
editThe forms with a longī (Īslande and derived terms, likeīslandietis,īslandisks, etc.) have been recently (in 2007) proposed as correct, but the forms with a shorti (Islande,islandietis,islandisks, etc.) are still more frequently used.
Declension
editsingular | plural | |
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nominative | islandiete | islandietes |
genitive | islandietes | islandiešu |
dative | islandietei | islandietēm |
accusative | islandieti | islandietes |
instrumental | islandieti | islandietēm |
locative | islandietē | islandietēs |
vocative | islandiete | islandietes |