Latvian

Adjective

islandisks (def. islandiskais, comp. islandiskāks, sup. visislandiskākais; adv. islandiski)

1. Icelandic (relating to the Icelandic language; relating to the Icelandic people or to Iceland)

   kaut kas ļoti islandisks‎ ― something very Icelandic

   Islandē, lai naturalizētos, jāpieņem islandisks vārds un uzvārds‎ ― In Iceland, in order to be naturalized, one has to take an Icelandic first and last name

Declension

Usage notes

• English “Dutch” as an attributive adjective usually correponds in Latvian to nīderlandiešu, the genitive plural form of nīderlandietis. The adjective nīderlandisks is commonly used as a predicate (“this is Dutch”), or in its adverbial form nīderlandiski.
• 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.

Related terms

• Islande
• islandietis, islandiete
• islandiešu valoda