vingrs

From an earlier verb *vingt (“to bend”) (the r follows the pattern of stingt “to harden, to stiffen,” stingrs “firm, strong, strict”), from Proto-Baltic *wing-, from Proto-Indo-European *wen- (“to bend, to incline”) with an extra g. Cognates include Lithuanian vingrùs (“tortuous, sinuous; agile, able, skillful”), Old Prussian wingriskan (“cunning, deceit(ful)”) (accusative).^[1]

• IPA^(key): [vīŋɡɾs]

vingrs (definite vingrais, comparative vingrāks, superlative visvingrākais, adverb vingri)

1. (of people, their bodies) firm, strong, fit, agile, flexible (physically well developed)

   vingrs augums ― firm body

   parādījās arī citi viesi... Šarlene griezās ap tiem kā atspole, atkal atsperīga un vingra ― the other guests appeared... Šarlene turned around them like a shuttle, springy and agile

   Anna bija skaista sieva, viņa izskatījās tik jauna,... bija vingra, cēla un lokana ― Anna was a beautiful woman, she looked so young,... (she) was fit, sublime and flexible

   mani locekļi bija vingri un viegli, un miesa it kā bez smaguma ― my limbs were firm and light, and the flesh (= body) (was) as if almost weightless

2. (of movement) agile, strong

   vingra gaita ― agile gait

   te aizmugurē ieskanas steidzīgi, vingri soļi, ar kādiem mēdz iet pašapzinīgi, spara pilni cilvēki ― here, behind (us), agile, quick steps resonate, the kind that self-confident, energetic people walk with

• knašs
• nasks
• ņiprs
• veikls
• žigls

• vingrināt, vingrinājums
• vingrot, vingrojums, vingrošana, vingrotājs, vingrotāja
• vingrums