salns
Latvian
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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 соло́вый (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
[edit]Adjective
[edit]salns (definite salnais, comparative salnāks, superlative vissalnākais, adverb salni)
- (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
- (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
- (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
Declension
[edit]indefinite declension (nenoteiktā galotne) of salns
| masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
| nominative (nominatīvs) | salns | salni | salna | salnas | |||||
| accusative (akuzatīvs) | salnu | salnus | salnu | salnas | |||||
| genitive (ģenitīvs) | salna | salnu | salnas | salnu | |||||
| dative (datīvs) | salnam | salniem | salnai | salnām | |||||
| instrumental (instrumentālis) | salnu | salniem | salnu | salnām | |||||
| locative (lokatīvs) | salnā | salnos | salnā | salnās | |||||
| vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||
Related terms
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Karulis, Konstantīns (1992) “salns”, in Latviešu Etimoloģijas Vārdnīca[1] (in Latvian), Rīga: AVOTS, →ISBN
