zelts
Latvian
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Baltic *želtas (“gold”), itself from *žel-t-, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰelh₃- (“yellow; gleam; to shine”). (From a variant *gʰel-, *gʷʰel- comes dzeltens (“yellow”), which was also the original meaning of the adjectival form of zelts.) Cognates include dialectal Lithuanian želtas (“golden, blond”), Old Prussian sealtmeno (/zealtmeno/, “oriole (yellow bird)”) (from *zēltmeno), Proto-Slavic *zolto (Old Church Slavonic злато (zlato), Ukrainian зо́лото (zóloto), Belarusian зо́лата (zólata), Bulgarian злато́ (zlató), Czech zlato, Polish złoto), Sanskrit हरि (hari, “to be yellow, green”), Proto-Germanic *gulþą (Old Norse gull, Old High German gold, German Gold, Dutch goud, Swedish guld, English gold); compare also Persian زر (zar), Northern Kurdish zêrr.[1]
Pronunciation
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zelts m (1st declension)
- gold (chemical element)
- tīrradņa zelts ― gold nuggets
- zelta rūda ― gold ore
- zelta hlorīds ― gold chloride
- zelta monēta, gredzens, pulkstenis, medaļa ― gold coin, ring, clock, medal
- golden (having the color of gold)
- zelta dzeltens, zeltdzeltens ― golden yellow
- zelta zivtiņa ― golden fish
- golden (very good, top quality, the best of its kind)
- viņš ir zelts, ne cilvēks ― he is gold, not a person
- zelta cilvkēs ― golden person
- zelta vārdi ― golden words
- zelta dzīve ― golden life
- zelta kāzas ― golden anniversary (50th wedding anniversary)
Declension
editsingular (vienskaitlis) | plural (daudzskaitlis) | |
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nominative (nominatīvs) | zelts | — |
accusative (akuzatīvs) | zeltu | — |
genitive (ģenitīvs) | zelta | — |
dative (datīvs) | zeltam | — |
instrumental (instrumentālis) | zeltu | — |
locative (lokatīvs) | zeltā | — |
vocative (vokatīvs) | zelt | — |
Derived terms
editReferences
edit- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “zelts”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
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