slims

See also: Slims

English edit

Verb edit

slims

third-person singular simple present indicative of slim

Noun edit

slims

plural of slim

Anagrams edit

misls

Latvian edit

Etymology edit

Borrowed from Middle Low German slim or from Middle Dutch slim (“twisted, crooked; bad, evil”); compare also German schlimm (“bad, evil; (col.) sick”). First attested in the 17th century, mostly with meanings such as “bad”, “useless”, “inappropriate”, “evil”, or “wild”, or more rarely “sick”. This last meaning “sick” was apparently more frequent in Southern Kurzeme dialects; in Vidzeme, this meaning was not attested still in the 18th century. It became more frequent in written Latvian with the works of G. F. Stenders in the late 18th century, especially his dictionary, in which German krank was translated as slims, and in which slims was no longer translated as “bad,” “useless”. Stenders also coined the terms slimība, slimnieks, apslimt and slimēties (but curiously not slimot, which appeared only in the 19th century).^[1]

Pronunciation edit

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Adjective edit

slims (definite slimais, comparative slimāks, superlative visslimākais, adverb slimi)

sick, ill, diseased (having a disturbance in the normal functioning of the body or one or some of its parts)
slims bērns ― sick child

slima sievete ― sick woman

slims kuņģis ― sick stomach

slimi zobi ― diseased teeth

ārstēt slimās acis ― to treat sick, diseased eyes

slima ābele ― sick apple tree

slims zieds ― sick flower

justies slimam ― to feel sick

viņš jau vairākas dienas ir slims ― he has been sick for several days

Declension edit

indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of slims

	masculine (vīriešu dzimte)		feminine (sieviešu dzimte)
	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	slims	slimi	slima	slimas
accusative (akuzatīvs)	slimu	slimus	slimu	slimas
genitive (ģenitīvs)	slima	slimu	slimas	slimu
dative (datīvs)	slimam	slimiem	slimai	slimām
instrumental (instrumentālis)	slimu	slimiem	slimu	slimām
locative (lokatīvs)	slimā	slimos	slimā	slimās
vocative (vokatīvs)	—	—	—	—

Antonyms edit

vesels

Derived terms edit

References edit

^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “slims”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN

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

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