islandiete

See also: islandietē, īslandiete, and īslandietē

Latvian

Etymology

From Islande (“Iceland”) +‎ -iete, or islandietis (“Icelander”) +‎ -e (“fem.”).

Noun

islandiete f (5th declension, masculine form: islandietis)

1. a female Icelander, an Icelandic woman, a woman from Iceland

   islandiete simboliski atklāj Eirovīzijas nedēļu ― an Icelandic woman symbolically opens the Eurovision week

Usage notes

The forms with a long ī (Īslande and derived terms, like īslandietis, īslandisks, etc.) have been recently (in 2007) proposed as correct, but the forms with a short i (Islande, islandietis, islandisks, etc.) are still more frequently used.

Declension

Declension of islandiete (5th declension)

	singular (vienskaitlis)	plural (daudzskaitlis)
nominative (nominatīvs)	islandiete	islandietes
accusative (akuzatīvs)	islandieti	islandietes
genitive (ģenitīvs)	islandietes	islandiešu
dative (datīvs)	islandietei	islandietēm
instrumental (instrumentālis)	islandieti	islandietēm
locative (lokatīvs)	islandietē	islandietēs
vocative (vokatīvs)	islandiete	islandietes

Related terms

• Islande
• islandiešu valoda
• islandisks