gaišmatis

Latvian

Gaišmatis

Etymology

From gaišs (“clear, bright”) +‎ mats (“hair”), made into a second-declension masculine noun (ending -is).

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Noun

gaišmatis m (2nd declension, feminine form: gaišmate)

1. blond (a man having blond hair)

   mazo, tievo gaišmati Jorens iepazina Ļeņingradas frontē ― Jorens met the small, thin blond (man) on the Leningrad front

   man garām aizsteidzas glīts gaišmatis, nesot lielu kaudzi ķieģeļu ― a handsome blond (man) went past me, carrying a big pile of bricks

Declension

Declension of gaišmatis (2nd declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	gaišmatis	gaišmati
accusative (akuzatīvs)	gaišmati	gaišmatus
genitive (ģenitīvs)	gaišmata	gaišmatu
dative (datīvs)	gaišmatim	gaišmatiem
instrumental (instrumentālis)	gaišmati	gaišmatiem
locative (lokatīvs)	gaišmatī	gaišmatos
vocative (vokatīvs)	gaišmati	gaišmati

Synonyms

• blondīns

Derived terms

• gaišmatains

See also

• rudmatis
• sirmmatis
• tumšmatis, brunets