sudrabs
Latvian
Alternative forms
Etymology
From a late Proto-Indo-European root common to Balto-Slavic and Germanic for “silver”, not attested in other branches of Indo-European, likely borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate.[1]
Cognates include Lithuanian sidãbras, dialectal sudãbras, archaic sidrabas (compare Latvian dialectal forms sudabrs, sidrabs), Old Prussian siraplis (accusative form sirablan), Old Church Slavonic сьрєбро (sĭrebro) (Russian серебро́ (serebró)), Gothic 𐍃𐌹𐌻𐌿𐌱𐍂 (silubr), German Silber, English silver.[2]
Pronunciation
Noun
| Chemical element | |
|---|---|
| Ag | |
| Previous: pallādijs (Pd) | |
| Next: kadmijs (Cd) | |
sudrabs m (1st declension)
- silver (precious metal; chemical element, with atomic number 47.)
- tīrradņa sudrabs ― virgin silver
- sudraba rūda ― silver ore
- sudraba sakausējumi ― silver alloys
- sudraba nitrāts, hlorīds ― silver nitrate, chloride
- sudraba karote ― silver spoon
- sudraba medaļa ― silver medal
- sudraba kāzas ― silver wedding (i.e., 20th anniversary)
- (adjectival genitive; speaking of sounds) pure, clear, clean
- viņas balsij sudraba skaņa ― her voice has a silver sound
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | sudrabs | — |
| genitive | sudraba | — |
| dative | sudrabam | — |
| accusative | sudrabu | — |
| instrumental | sudrabu | — |
| locative | sudrabā | — |
| vocative | sudrab | — |
Derived terms
- sudrabains, (dialectal) sidrabains
References
- ^ Benveniste, É. (2016). Dictionary of Indo-European Concepts and Society. United Kingdom: HAU Books, p. 151
- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “sudrabs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca [Latvian Etymological Dictionary][1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN