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Latvian
Etymology
From Islande (“Iceland”) + -isks.
Adjective
islandisks (definite islandiskais, comparative islandiskāks, superlative visislandiskākais, adverb islandiski)
- 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
Usage notes
- English “Dutch” as an attributive adjective usually corresponds 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.
Declension