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islandiete

islandiete

Latvian

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

Declension

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.

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