slinks
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slinks (comparative slinkser, superlative meest slinks or slinkst)
Declension of slinks | ||||
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uninflected | slinks | |||
inflected | slinkse | |||
comparative | slinkser | |||
positive | comparative | superlative | ||
predicative/adverbial | slinks | slinkser | het slinkst het slinkste | |
indefinite | m./f. sing. | slinkse | slinksere | slinkste |
n. sing. | slinks | slinkser | slinkste | |
plural | slinkse | slinksere | slinkste | |
definite | slinkse | slinksere | slinkste | |
partitive | slinks | slinksers | — |
From a (still dialectally attested) verb slinkt (“to creep, to crawl, to go slowly”) (compare Lithuanian sliñkti (“to crawl slowly”)), from Proto-Balto-Slavic *slink-, from a reduced grade of Proto-Indo-European *slenk- (“to turn, to twist, to wind; to drag oneself, to creep, to crawl”) (perhaps in confluence with Proto-Indo-European *(s)lēg-, *(s)leg- (“to be languid”)). The meaning went from “to crawl, to creep” to “to move slowly, lazily,” “to be lazy,” or, for the adjective slinks, from “slow-moving” to “lazy.” Cognates include Lithuanian sliñkas.[1]
slinks (definite slinkais, comparative slinkāks, superlative visslinkākais, adverb slinki)
masculine (vīriešu dzimte) | feminine (sieviešu dzimte) | ||||||||
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singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) |
singular (vienskaitlis) |
plural (daudzskaitlis) | ||||||
nominative (nominatīvs) | slinks | slinki | slinka | slinkas | |||||
accusative (akuzatīvs) | slinku | slinkus | slinku | slinkas | |||||
genitive (ģenitīvs) | slinka | slinku | slinkas | slinku | |||||
dative (datīvs) | slinkam | slinkiem | slinkai | slinkām | |||||
instrumental (instrumentālis) | slinku | slinkiem | slinku | slinkām | |||||
locative (lokatīvs) | slinkā | slinkos | slinkā | slinkās | |||||
vocative (vokatīvs) | — | — | — | — | |||||