spierwit
Afrikaans
Etymology
Adjective
spierwit (attributive spierwite, not comparable)
- white as a sheet, snow-white
- Synonyms: haelwit, sneeuwit
Dutch
Etymology
From spier (“poultry, white meat”) + wit (“white”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /spiːrˈʋɪt/
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: spier‧wit
Adjective
spierwit (not comparable)
Declension
| Declension of spierwit | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| uninflected | spierwit | |||
| inflected | spierwitte | |||
| comparative | — | |||
| positive | ||||
| predicative/adverbial | spierwit | |||
| indefinite | m./f. sing. | spierwitte | ||
| n. sing. | spierwit | |||
| plural | spierwitte | |||
| definite | spierwitte | |||
| partitive | spierwits | |||
Descendants
- Afrikaans: spierwit