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salns

salns

Latvian

Adjective

salns (def. salnais, comp. salnāks, sup. vissalnākais; adv. salni)

  1. (of animal, especially horse, hair) roan-colored (having the kind of color created by even mixture of white and colored hairs)
    salna ķēve‎ ― roan mare
    Mārcis piekļāva galvu salnā kumeļa krēpēm‎ ― Mārcis pressed (his) head in (= against) the roan colt's mane
    salnais sāk rikšot‎ ― the roan one (= horse) started trotting, cantering
  2. (of other entities) having a color similar to that of a roan horse
    pavasaros zaļš un skaļš, ziemās salns‎ ― in spring green and noisy, in winter roan (= whitish brown)
    debesīs auļo mākoņi salni‎ ― in the sky roan (= whitish brown) clouds gallop
  3. (figuratively, of people's hair) grayish
    tīk, netīk melnu matu zīds, / bet cienām galvu salnu‎ ― the silk of black hair (= younger people) may please or not please / but we respect a roan (= grayish) head (= older people)
    dzirdot jaunās atraitnes skumji priecīgo balsi, viņa salnajā bārdā noritēja dažas asaras‎ ― hearing the sadly joyful voice of the young widow, a few tears moved in his roan (= grayish) beard

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References

  1. ↑ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), “salns”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7

Etymology

The world seems to be derived from the same source as salna ‎(“frost”) (q.v.): the verb salt ‎(“to freeze”) (q.v.); the meaning change parallels that of sarma ‎(“frost”), sirms ‎(“gray”). But it is also possible that salns either came from, or was influenced by, Proto-Indo-European *sal- ‎(“dirty gray”) via Proto-Baltic *sal- (whence also sāls ‎(“salt”), q.v.); cf. Russian соловый ‎(solóvyj, “yellowish horse with light tail and mane”), Old High German salo ‎(“dirty gray”), Old English salu ‎(“dirty gray”), Middle Dutch salu, zalu, zaluw ‎(“pale yellow; dirty”), Dutch zaluw ‎(“dark yellow”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [sâlns]

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