islandiete
Latvian
Etymology
From Islande (“Iceland”) + -iete, or islandietis (“Icelander”) + -e (“fem.”).
Noun
islandiete f (5th declension, masculine form: islandietis)
- a female Icelander, an Icelandic woman, a woman from Iceland
- islandiete simboliski atklāj Eirovīzijas nedēļu ― an Icelandic woman symbolically opens the Eurovision week
Usage notes
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
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | islandiete | islandietes |
| genitive | islandietes | islandiešu |
| dative | islandietei | islandietēm |
| accusative | islandieti | islandietes |
| instrumental | islandieti | islandietēm |
| locative | islandietē | islandietēs |
| vocative | islandiete | islandietes |