slinks
English edit
Verb edit
slinks
- third-person singular simple present indicative of slink
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Etymology edit
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Pronunciation edit
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Adjective edit
slinks (comparative slinkser, superlative meest slinks or slinkst)
Inflection edit
| Inflection of slinks | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | slinks | |||
| inflected | slinkse | |||
| comparative | slinkser | |||
| positive | comparative | superlative | ||
| predicative/adverbial | slinks | slinkser | het slinkst het slinkste | |
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | slinkse | slinksere | slinkste |
| n. sing. | slinks | slinkser | slinkste | |
| plural | slinkse | slinksere | slinkste | |
| definite | slinkse | slinksere | slinkste | |
| partitive | slinks | slinksers | — | |
Derived terms edit
Latvian edit
Etymology edit
From a (still dialectally attested) verb slinkt (“to creep, to crawl, to go slowly”) (compare Lithuanian sliñkti (“to crawl slowly”)), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *slink-, from a reduced grade of Proto-Indo-European *slenk- (“to turn, to twist, to wind; to drag oneself, to creep, to crawl”) (perhaps in confluence with Proto-Indo-European *(s)lēg-, *(s)leg- (“to be languid”)). The meaning went from “to crawl, to creep” to “to move slowly, lazily,” “to be lazy,” or, for the adjective slinks, from “slow-moving” to “lazy.” Cognates include Lithuanian sliñkas.[1]
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
slinks (definite slinkais, comparative slinkāks, superlative visslinkākais, adverb slinki)
- lazy (who is given to idleness, who typically does not like, is reluctant to work, to do something)
- slinks darbinieks, talcinieks ― lazy employee, helper
- slinks strādnieks, skolnieks ― lazy worker, schoolchild
- slinks zirgs ― lazy horse
Declension edit
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| nominative (nominatīvs) | slinks | slinki | slinka | slinkas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | slinku | slinkus | slinku | slinkas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | slinka | slinku | slinkas | slinku | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | slinkam | slinkiem | slinkai | slinkām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | slinku | slinkiem | slinku | slinkām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | slinkā | slinkos | slinkā | slinkās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Related terms edit
References edit
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “slinks”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN