indisks

From Ind(ija) (“India”) +‎ -isks.

indisks (definite indiskais, comparative indiskāks, superlative visindiskākais, adverb indiski)

1. Indian (relating to the peoples, languages and cultures of India, or to India itself)

   indiska atziņa ― Indian cognition, thought

   indisks motīvs ― Indian motif

   jūsu dzejolis esot īsti indisks ― your poem is, they say, truly Indian

   tas ir kaut kas austrumniecisks, indisks, šamanisks ― this is something oriental, Indian, shamanistic

English “Indian” as an attributive adjective usually corresponds in Latvian to indiešu, the genitive plural form of indietis. The adjective indisks is commonly used as a predicate (“this is Indian”), or in its adverbial form indiski.

• Indija
• indietis, indiete