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sniegs

sniegs

Latvian

Sniegs

Noun

sniegs m (1st declension)

  1. snow (frozen water that falls as precipitation)
    sniegs snieg ― it is snowing (lit. the snow snows)
    sniega pārslas, kristālisnowflakes, snow crystals
    sniega ūdens, sniegūdenssnow water
    sniega vīrs, sniegavīrssnowman
    sniega vētrasnow storm
    smalks, dziļš, irdens sniegs ― fine, deep, snow
    slapjš, sauss, irdens sniegs ― wet, dry, powedery snow
    sniega kupenasnow drift
    sniegs sāk kust ― the snow begins to melt
    sniega lāpstasnow shovel
    tīrīt sniegu no ceļa ― to clean, remove the snow from the road
    balts kā sniegs ― white as snow

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References

  1. Kim, Ronald (forth.), “The Phonology of Balto-Slavic”, in Jared S. Klein, Brian Joseph, and Matthias Fritz, editors, Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: An International Handbook of Language Comparison and the Reconstruction of Indo-European, Berlin: de Gruyter
  2. Karulis, Konstantīns (1992), sniegs”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, ISBN 9984-700-12-7