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Latvian
Adjective
saldus
- accusative plural masculine of salds
Lithuanian
Etymology
From Proto-Balto-Slavic *salˀdus, from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂el-d-u-, an extended form of *sh₂el-, *seh₂l- (“salt”); the *-d- may have been added by analogy with the *-d- in Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂d- (“sweet”). Compare the related verb sálti (“sweeten”), as well as Latvian salds, Proto-Slavic *soldъkъ.[1]
Pronunciation
Adjective
saldùs m (feminine saldì, neuter saldù) stress pattern 3
- sweet
- Antonym: kartus
Declension
Non-pronominal forms (neįvardžiuotinės formos) of saldus
Pronominal forms (įvardžiuotinės formos) of saldus
Derived terms
- adjectives: saldinis, saldokas, saldutėlaitis, saldutėlis, saldutis, saldžiabalsis, saldžiakalbis, saldžiakartis, saldžiarūkštis, salyklinis, salsvas
- adverbs: saldžiai
- nouns: saldainis, saldainėlis, saldainiukas, saldė, saldėsis, saldytisaldybė, saldimas, saldymedis, saldininkas, saldininikė, saldis, saldižius, saldišė, saldliežuvavimas, saldliežuvis, saldliežuvė, saldumas, saldumynai, saldžiabylys, saldžiabylė, saldžiažodis, saldžiažodė, saldžioji, salyklas, salyklinė, salymas, salinimas, saldumynas, saldmuo
- verbs: saldėti, saldinti, saldliežuvauti, saldžiažodžiauti, salinti, salstelėti, salsti, salti
References
- ^ Derksen, Rick (2015) “saldus”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 13), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 387-8